Poetry
- William Shenstone - The Judgment of Hercules
- Edward Young - Poetical Works of the Reverend Edward Young
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“Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligencethis may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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—Charles Dickens (18121870)