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Updated: July 2, 2025

But, sound or unsound, sense or nonsense, it is poetry, and magnificent poetry, from the first line to the last poetry than which there is none better in any language, poetry such as there is not perhaps more than a small volume-full in all languages. The second class of merit, that of vivid observation, abounds whereever the poems are opened.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)