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"The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst."
— Clifton Fadiman (Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader)
— Clifton Fadiman (Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader)
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