Leigh Hunt
Subtitle: Selected Writings (Fyfield Books)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 20, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780415969512
First sentence: Poetry, in its highest sense, belongs exclusively to such men as Shakspeare, Spenser, and others, who possessed the deepest insight into the spirit and sympathies of all things; but poetry, in the most comprehensive application of the term, I take to be the flower of any kind of experience, rooted in truth, and issuing forth into beauty.