The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul. (Matthew Arnold)

The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.

Matthew Arnold

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