25 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 29

rEnv iiitereStink "-PaMPfilet of the English' Association iS 7 Philip HaitPra•

On the -Relation of Poetry to Verge. oskrit scholars- of antiquity regardedWaS essential in try as :something.: ineXpressible_ and- ineomprehensible; the., thetic delectableness-of WhiCh.they. named rasa, a -subjective the-readers mind: .Sidney. said the ie thing -very neatly:: "Verse is' but an. Ornament and no - Jie to-poetty,. sithl.there ilaVe: been- many most •excellent Ls that iley.er :versified, And now Swarinrmany -versifiers neeneVe. answer..tbAlre _name- of poeta.v.. Plato, Isaiah d : Bacorrare poets. by ,this'reasoCuirg-s,anif who will deny it ?

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