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- ... [T]he Poet, in picturing nature, should never pin himself to the particular, or to the locally present. ... [H]e should paint her primarily through his imagination; and thus the striking features and colors of many scenes, which lie permanently gathered in his memory, becoming, with their influences, idealised in the process, will be essentially transfused up a few, or even upon one scene—one happy embodiment of her wildest freaks, or one Eden-piece embathed with a luminous atmosphere of sentiment. ... Thus it is truth sublimated, compressed, epitomised ... (en)
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