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On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Lisa Auanger quoted from

> Archibald MacLeish, b. 1892
> 
> Ars Poetica
[...]
> A poem should not mean
> But be

Written by a poet in a poem about his art. The statement says nothing
about the analysis, interpretation, and teaching of poetry to students who
are not accomplished poets, or who know even less than their teachers
about the art of poetry. The statement is significant for one school of
criticism only (New Criticism). There is more to criticism than that.

--Elias J. Theodoracopoulos

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