Virginia Woolf: "Perbandingan antara Coleridge dan Johnson sangat jela...

"Perbandingan antara Coleridge dan Johnson sangat jelas sejauh masing-masing bergoyang terutama oleh kekuatan lidahnya. Perbedaan antara metode-metode mereka begitu ditandai sehingga menggoda, tetapi juga tidak perlu, untuk menilai yang satu lebih rendah daripada yang lain. Johnson kuat, agresif, dan konkret; Coleridge sebaliknya. Perbedaannya mungkin ada dalam benaknya ketika dia berkata tentang Johnson: "sikapnya yang sopan pasti berkaitan dengan efek yang dihasilkan."

--- Virginia Woolf

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The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced.