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...whether rightfully or wrongfully, has always had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain...degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all, cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length. After the lapse...

...whether rightfully or wrongfully, has always had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain...degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all, cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length. After the lapse...

...whether rightfully or wrongfully, has always had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain...elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychical necessity, transient. That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called...

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...whether rightfully or wrongfully, has always had its influence in my own critical estimate of the poem. I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain...degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all cannot be sustained throughout a composition of any great length. After the lapse...

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