Swinburne, Algernon Charles. William Blake. 1868. London: J. C. Hotten, pp. 300-304. Reprinted: Hindus. [Blake and Whitman share a passion for sexual and political freedom, similarity to "the Pantheistic poetry of the East," a selfless love which has made them both martyrs and prophets, and some of the same shortcomings. Whitman is less profound but "more frank and fresh." Blake has no sustained work to equal "Cradle" or "Lilacs" ("the most sweet and sonorous nocturn ever chanted in the church of the world"), but their "breadth of outline and charm of colour" recall Blake.]