Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. (Matthew Arnold)

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

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