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Excerpt from Passion Flowers
I must add a few words about the sonnet a form of composition to which I am very partial.
When I began to write quatorzains, I did not know that the sonnet of Petrarch set up for being the only correct one. I have adhered to that form in my Sonnets on the Way of the Cross, which I deem my best work in the present volume; but have not kept exclusively to it since, and do not mean to do so in the future. I believe the English language impor tant enough to have a sonnet of its own. The Shakspearian form is duly recognized. But Wordsworth is incomparably the greatest com poser of the sonnet that our literature can boast of; and he varies not only the minor system, but often the major too, and in a way that suits the genius of the English language. So, too, with Keats, that young giant of song, whose sonnets are among our very finest. I am quite content, then, to err in such company if error there be in my theory.
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