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Excerpt from Verses
Far from the poets being astray in prose-writ ing (said Francis Thompson) it might plausibly be contended that English prose, as an art, is but a secondary stream Of the Pierian fount, and owes its very origin to the poets. The first writer one remembers with whom prose became an art was Sir Philip Sidney. And Sidney was a poet.
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