Many different meanings have been given to the word poetry. It would weary my readers if I were to discuss which of these definitions ought to be selected; I prefer telling them at once that which I have chosen. In my opinion, Poetry is the search after, and the delineation of, the Ideal.
The Poet is he who, by suppressing a part of what exists, by adding some imaginary touches to the picture, and by combining certain real circumstances that do not in fact happen together, completes and extends the work of nature. Thus the object of poetry is not to represent what is tree, but to adorn it and to present to the mind some loftier image. Verse, regarded as the ideal beauty of language, may be eminently poetical; but verse does not of itself constitute poetry.
I now proceed to inquire whether among the actions, the sentiments, and the opinions of democratic nations there are any which lead to a conception of the ideal, and which may for this reason be considered as na
A. for those of an aristocracy, the imagination is boundless, and for those of a democracy, the imagination is used to reach realistic goals
B. for those of an aristocracy, the imagination is used to reach realistic goals, and for those of a democracy, the imagination is boundless
C. for those of an aristocracy, the imagination is boundless, and for those of a democracy, the imagination is used to reach unrealistic goals
D. for those of an aristocracy, the imagination is bound to be practical, and for those of a democracy, the imagination is used to reach realistic goals
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