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The greatest poets are usually those who arise either out of a
\nlarge simple and puissant environment or out of a movement of mind that is grandiose, forceful & elemental. When man
\nbecomes excessively refined in intellect, curious in aesthetic sensibility or minute & exact in intellectual reasoning, it becomes
\nmore & more difficult to write great and powerful poetry. Ages of accomplished intellectuality & scholarship or of strong scientific rationality are not favourable to the birth of great poets or, if they are born, not favourable to the free & untrammelled
\naction of their gifts. They remain great, but their greatness bends under a load; there is a lack of triumphant spontaneity and they
\ndo not draw as freely or directly from the sources of human action & character. An untameable elemental force is needed to
\novercome more than partially the denials of the environment. For poetry, even though it appeals in passing to the intellect &
\naesthetic sense, does not proceed from them but is in its nature an elemental power proceeding from the secret & elemental
\nPower within which sees directly & creates sovereignly, & it passes at once to our vital & elemental parts. Intellect and the
\naesthetic faculties are necessary to the perfection of our critical enjoyment; but they were only assistants, not the direct agents
\nof this divine birth.  
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