“Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.”
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
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Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.
John Drinkwater
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A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
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