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The Four Ages of Poetry  by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK

8 February 2006
Vol. 5, No. 4
nonfiction, classic

Poetry, like the world, may be said to have four ages, but in a different order: the first age of poetry being the age of iron; the second, of gold; the third, of silver; and the fourth, of brass.

 

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