TREASURE OF POESY: Literary Eassy:Four

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• However, poets go well beyond this, considering a word's emotive qualities, its old story, its harmonious and lyrical value, its essence, and even its emotional relationship to a human being. The full signature of poetry as an interpretation of life through imagination and feeling will be made apparent when we come presently to deal with the relations of poetry and science., and with the properties of poetic truth.
• When we speak of imagination and feeling as predominating in poetry we mean to distinguish these as general and constant characteristics of the poetic treatment of human life; but we do not mean to state that their presence, even in the highest degree, is itself sufficient to constitute poetry.
• We may regard them as essential qualities of all true poetry, and we may insist that without them even that which offers itself as poetry and is commonly accepted as such, must, as lacking their differentia, be pronounced unworthy of the name. But, they are not the only essential qualities, because they may exist in what we should do in all poetic prose which is not the less to be dominated prose because it possesses these poetic attributes.
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