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Quotes from The Name and Nature of Poetry — A. E. Housman

1859–1936 England

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. [...] and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933)

Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933)

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