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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.
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