"Every good poet includes a critic; the reverse will not hold."
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"On Writing and Books" LXXIX, p. 128
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William Shenstone
William Shenstone (18 November 1714 β 11 February 1763) was an English poet, essayist and one of the earliest practitoners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
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