Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Verse Writing: A Practical Handbook for College, Classes and Private Guidance, With Exercises
Poetry is certainly not the least of the major arts. Indeed, the opinion has been well supported that it is the greatest. However, it must be admitted that neither music nor painting has suffered such contumely as poetry in these latter days. No one has asserted that the modern world has outlived either painting or music. Yet this has frequently been said of poetry. Poetry has somehow been assumed to be inconsistent with truth and reality. Science, held responsible for much iconoclasm, has been declared to be the mortal enemy of poetry. But why of poetry more than of the other arts?
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