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... [ poet ] is to complete the incomplete designs of nature . " -Aristotle " The origin of poetry lies in a thirst for a wilder beauty than earth supplies . " -Edgar Allan Poe " Poetry is that impassioned arrangement of words ( whether in ...
... [ poet ] is to complete the incomplete designs of nature . " -Aristotle " The origin of poetry lies in a thirst for a wilder beauty than earth supplies . " -Edgar Allan Poe " Poetry is that impassioned arrangement of words ( whether in ...
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... poetry which followed the passing of Chaucer , the Scottish poets were the truest followers of " the father of English poetry " . Lack of self - criticism , resulting in aridity , marred the verse of the English poets , who seemed not ...
... poetry which followed the passing of Chaucer , the Scottish poets were the truest followers of " the father of English poetry " . Lack of self - criticism , resulting in aridity , marred the verse of the English poets , who seemed not ...
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... poets . But Emerson , in his English Traits , dismisses Pope in this wise : " Thus poetry is degraded and made ornamental . Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put around frosted cake . " Was Pope a poet ? The answer to the old ...
... poets . But Emerson , in his English Traits , dismisses Pope in this wise : " Thus poetry is degraded and made ornamental . Pope and his school wrote poetry fit to put around frosted cake . " Was Pope a poet ? The answer to the old ...
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