John Churton Collins

"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery."

"Churton Collins ... was certainly not the man to grow enthusiastic over every " new thing " that might might loom above the literary horizon. He more often confronted novelty from the peak of than of . Yet it was Churton Collins who alligned with Dante and Milton, and declared that " no poet has made his début with a volume which is at once of such extraordinary merit and so rich in promise."