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The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10
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Title: The World's Best Poetry -- Volume 10
Author: Various Edited by Bliss Carman
Release Date: July 17, 2004 [EBook #12925]
Language: English
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THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY
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I Home: Friendship II Love III Sorrow and Consolation IV The Higher Life V Nature VI Fancy: Sentiment VII Descriptive: Narrative VIII National Spirit IX Tragedy: Humor X Poetical Quotations
THE WORLD'S BEST POETRY
IN TEN VOLUMES, ILLUSTRATED
Editor-in-Chief BLISS CARMAN
Associate Editors John Vance Cheney Charles G.D. Roberts Charles F. Richardson Francis H. Stoddard
Managing Editor John R. Howard
1904
The World's Best Poetry Vol. X
POETICAL QUOTATIONS
AFTER ALL, WHAT IS POETRY
By JOHN R. HOWARD
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AFTER ALL, WHAT IS POETRY?
BY JOHN RAYMOND HOWARD.
Considering the immense volume of poetical writing produced, and lost or accumulated, by all nations through the ages, it is of curious interest that no generally accepted definition of the word "Poetry" has ever been m