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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Milton', The Edinburgh Review (1825)
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth—truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.