"Strive not to say the whole! The Poet, in his Art, Must intimate the whole, and say the smallest part."

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19th-century poets from the United StatesArt criticsPoets from MassachusettsSculptors from the United States
Original Language: English

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Couplet III, i, Vol. II, p. 308.

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Couplet III, i, Vol. II, p. 308.