Note 101 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
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Pope said, “There are three distinct tours in poetry; the design, the language, and the versification....” Spence, Anecd., p. 23. As to prose poems, he could read Telemachus with pleasure, “though I don’t like that poetic kind of prose.” Its good sense was so great, “nothing else could make me forget my prejudices against the style.” Ibid., pp. 141 f.