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Matthew Arnold1822–1888

For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

Matthew Arnold on poetry

Introduction to Ward’s English Poets (1880)

Poetry Religion

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