Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents.

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• John Crowe Ransom:

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• John Crowe Ransom:

  Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

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• John Crowe Ransom:

  Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content

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