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George Henry Lewes on Poetry

1817–1878 England

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The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

The Principles of Success in Literature (1865)

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