In his introduction to Ward's admirable selec tions from The English Poets, Matthew Arnold - critic and poet - to whom allusion has already been made, says: The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay.

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