Sentence:  Its aim is not merely to reunite all the dispersed classes of poetry, and to place poetry in touch with philosophy and rhetoric; it aims and ought to aim to mingle and combine poetry and prose, genius and criticism, artistic and natural poetry; to make poetry lively and social, to make life and society poetic; to <WSD>poetize</WSD> wit, to saturate all the forms of art with worthy materials of culture and enliven them by the sallies of humor. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make poetic.