History of Poetry

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===POETRY===

Poetry is, to paraphrase Justice Harlan on pornography, "not easy to define but I know it when I see it." Poetry is as old as human speech and is a compressed form of speech (and song) in an imaginative manner that at its best evokes and releases human emotions and intuition. Shelley called it "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." And, Wordsworth called this "impassioned expression" "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge."

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Poetry is, to paraphras Justice Harlan on pornography, "not easy to define but I know it when I see it." Poetry is as old as human speech and is a compressed form of speech (and song)in an imaginative manner that at its best evokes and release human emotions and intuition. Shelley called it "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." And, Wordsworth called this "impassioned expression" "the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge."

The History of Poetry

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History goes here... Quotes go here...

Read The Columbia History of American Poetry

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Terms

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see the list of poets

See the list of poets

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See: literature, the short story, theater, and the novel

See also: literature, the short story, theater, and the novel