sonded

Updated: May 2, 2025

"And what is else not to be overcome ... " or of "O martyr sonded in virginitee!" I answer: It has not and cannot have them; it is the poetry of the builders of an age of prose and reason. Though they may write in verse, though they may in a certain sense be masters of the art of versification, Dryden and Pope are not classics of our poetry, they are classics of our prose.

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold