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Excerpt from Odes and Sonnets
Chatterton is commonly held up as the criterion of literary precocity; yet he was, for all his strong personality, a babbling babe compared to Smith, so far as poetry is concerned. In faet, his poems are mere verse and not poetry, while in the pages that follow the discemer of pure gold will find it in heavy veins. Beside it, I can imagine nothing more ephemeral than the aridities and extrava' gances of free verse. In the new treason to beauty.
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