"'Tis in the power of Poetry to insinuate into the inmost Recesses of the Mind, to touch any Spring that moves the Heart, to agitate the Soul with any sort of Affection, and transform it into any Shape or Posture it thinks fit."
Richard Blackmore

January 1, 1970

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Preface to Prince Arthur (1695)

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