“We should conceive of poetry worthily, and more
highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it
as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general
men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we
have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.
Without poetry, our science will appear incomplete; and most of what now passes
with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.” —English poet-critic Matthew
Arnold (1822-1888), “The Study of Poetry” (1880)
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