Excerpt from A Concise Treasury of Great Poems English and American: From the Foundations of the English Spirit to the Outstanding Poetry of Our Own Time, With Lives of the Poets and Historical Settings Selected and Integrated

If poetry is the most potent of human communications, it should also be the simplest and the most logical expression.

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