CRITICISM
Book Author Edgar Allan Poe
DescriptionIT HAS been said that a good critique on a poem may be written by
one who is no poet himself. This, according to your idea and mine of
poetry, I feel to be false- the less poetical the critic, the less
just the critique, and the converse. On this account, and because
there are but few B___s in the world, I would be as much ashamed of
the world's good opinion as proud of your own.