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• John Drinkwater:

  A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppo

• John Drinkwater:

  Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a successi

• John Drinkwater:

  But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poe

• John Drinkwater:

  For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and

• John Drinkwater:

  Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness,

• John Drinkwater:

  If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

• John Drinkwater:

  It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English

• John Drinkwater:

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• John Drinkwater:

  Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.