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BROWNING
But that means that the poet himself is growing impatient of his prose commentator, and is taking the business into his own hands. It is time to stop. The poet may be left to do his work; to prove, even against his own argument in Pacchiarotto, that what he has to give is not knowledge only, nor strength only, but beauty. The simplest and most satisfactory name for it is poetry.
W. P. Ker.
