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Excerpt from The World's Best Poetry: In Ten Volumes, Illustrated
Poetry and Imagination Wordsworth's In troduction to the Lyrical Ballads Poe's strik ing little essays on the art of poetry; Aristotle's Rhetoric; Macaulay's Essay on Milton Lowell's Essay on Dryden and many a pas sage of illuminative comment from Milton, from Pope. From Dryden, from Coleridge and from many another. For one who has not known and read much poetry the best introduction to its studv may well be the pleasurable reading of some, or of all, of these works, though remember ing that such reading is not study, but only the reviewing of records of work done bv others, use ful mainly as a preparation for the real study which is to follow.
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