Clio (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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In the former preface I offered a few observa tions on the nature and uses of Poetry. 1 shall now continue them, not as specimens of critical disqui sitiou, but as simple expressions of my own views and feelings. There has lately been an interestingcontroversy on this subject Land even'now the lov ers of poetry, and'pretenders to taste, are arranged under different standards. Some dwell on the ritzh fancy, the deep feeling, the strong passion, and the vivid imagery offl'the early school of the days of Elizabeth. They readily pardon their negligence and occasional coarseness, their contempt of all the rules of rhetoric, and the improbabilities of their fictions, for the deep and rich vein, that shines through them. Others take Pope and Campbell for their standards. The smoothness of their vers ification, the perfect correctness and propriety of their language, the fastidiousness of their taste, and their regular chime of thought and measure, constié tute, with this class ofamateurs, the ne plus ultra of poetic excellence.

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