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Excerpt from Euthanasia: A Poem in Four Cantos of Spenserian Metre on the Discovery of the North-West Passage by Sir John Franklin, Knight
So I have wished, nay so I have striven, to write; with what success let others judge.
The second notion, alluded to above, is more specific and precise, and cannot be so easily dismissed. This does not object to poetry, but to the poem, as regards the subject chosen, and asserts that no poem of any length, that is of the epic nature, can be really great or interesting, unless the event of which it treats be distant and remote, in time at least, if not also in place.
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