Author: Immortalist
Date: Jul 9, 2007 10:07
..., as a vague feeling, has really guided them in their employment of the term. The object of poetry is confessedly to act upon the emotions; and therein is poetry sufficiently distinguished from what Wordsworth affirms to be its logical opposite; namely, not prose but matter of fact, or science. Many of the greatest poems are in the form of fictitious narratives; and, in almost all good ...
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