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Excerpt from The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts Didac'tic' poetry is moral truth clothed in the garmatte of Fiction. Its design more than that of any other species of poetry is to instruct, guide the arts, and to trace the laws of propriety and reason. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.