His odes to "Spring" and "Autumn" are the harbingers of Keats.

Not since Shakespeare and Campion died could English show songs like his "My silks and fine array." and the others which carry the Elizabethan accent.

He could write these things as well as the Elizabethans.

In others he was unique.
"Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry." In all the English lyric there is no voice so clear, so separate or distinctive as his..