One can put up with, indeed more than put up with, a certain amount of technical carelessness in Poetry, provided it be in other respects of a very h… - Alfred Austin

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One can put up with, indeed more than put up with, a certain amount of technical carelessness in Poetry, provided it be in other respects of a very high order, as not unoften, for instance, in Shakespeare and Byron. But similar blemishes in a picture would be all but fatal to it in the estimation of connoisseurs, since it would be the first thing that struck them in it.