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Excerpt from The Kinds of Poetry: And Other Essays
Such a definition - in the second place is indispensable not merely to any logical inquiry into evolution, but much more to any fair statement of what men in general think poetry is. In our ordinary thought we conceive of poetry just as we conceive of life itself, as sub J ect to no development whatever. Things either have existed or they have not; the utterances of the race.
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