I now read my recantation.

He has faults undoubtedly.

But what a poet! The Medea, the Alcestis, the Troades, the Bacchae, are alone sufficient to place him in the very first rank.

Instead of depreciating him, as I have done, I may, for aught I know, end by editing him.
I have read Pindar,--with less pleasure than I feel in reading the great Attic poets, but still with admiration.

An idea occurred to me which may very likely have been noticed by a hundred people before.