"Poetry comes at things through particulars, by means of images, and it doesn't deal so easily with generalities. Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances." -Galway Kinnell
From Sir Philip Sidney's "An Apology for Poetry," in which he mocks the plays written and performed in England in his time, particularly the absence of the unity of time, place, and action. Further connotations are hopefully obvious?
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From Sir Philip Sidney's "An Apology for Poetry," in which he mocks the plays written and performed in England in his time, particularly the absence of the unity of time, place, and action. Further connotations are hopefully obvious?
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