A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
-- John Drinkwater
   
John Drinkwater   Name:
John Drinkwater
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
English
Birth:
June 1, 1882
Death:
March 25, 1937
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