Note 62 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
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Works, Hartford, 1889, I. 213 f. Essay on Wordsworth, etc. Bruchmann, in his excellent Poetik, Berlin, 1898, gives up the attempt to mark off poetry from prose, speaks of a “neutral ground,” and then defines poetry as “Steigerung durch Form und Inhalt; die Form ist Gesang, Rhythmus, Reim” (p. 53). What more could the defender of rhythm ask as working test?