1. Judith Wright
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), in his Essays, wrote that "Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance." ... Poetry differs from prose and other genres by that has formal devices and techniques used to construct it, and that without such techniques poetry is not, as such, poetry. ... Robert Frost (1875-1965) said that "Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down." ...
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