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After pope, in the beginning of romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.
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After Pope, In The Beginning Of Romanticism,

Robert Hass
After pope, in the beginning of romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its best expression is through poetry. therefore, poetry should not try to do the stuff that mere prose does: convey information or make arguments about ideas.
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