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Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey InstitutionDownload Now...

by William Hazlitt (Author) , Alfred Rayney Waller (Editor) , Ernest Rhys (Editor)

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The best general notion which I can give of poetry is that it is the natural impression of any object or event by its vividness exciting an involuntary movement of imagination and passion and producing by sympathy a certain modulation of the voice or sounds expressing it.

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