Jackson went from the professors chair to the officers saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood. – Daniel H. Hill
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom

