Sir Aubrey de Vere — a remark

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“Poetry is not the thing itself, but the expression of the thing.”

Distinguishing artistic expression from the experience or reality that inspires it. · Essay on poetry

About Sir Aubrey de Vere

Sir Aubrey de Vere

28 August 1788–5 July 1846

Sir Aubrey de Vere, born Aubrey Hunt on 28 August 1788 and dead on 5 July 1846, was an Irish poet, dramatist, landowner, magistrate, and baronet whose life joined literary aspiration to the duties and assumptions of the Anglo-Irish governing class. He is now frequently encountered as the father of the better-known…

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