When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. (John Crowe Ransom)

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

John Crowe Ransom

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