It Should Here Be Added That Poetry

Grant Us The Wil1 To Fashion As We Feel, Grant Us The Strength To Labor As We Know, Grant Us The Purpose, Ribbed And Edged With Steel, To Strike The Blow.

The Written Word Is Everything.

But In The Finished Art Of The Song The Use Of Words Has No Connection With The Use Of Words In Poetry.

When The Poet Makes His Perfect Selection Of A Word, He Is Endowing The Word With Life.

It Is Commonly Asserted And Accepted That Paradise Lost Is Among The Two Or Three Greatest English Poems; It May Justly Be Taken As The Type Of Supreme Poetic Achievement In Our Literature.