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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)
A poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life; a poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is a poetry of indifference towards life.
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)
A beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)
Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)
The crown of literature is poetry.
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)