精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上 Poes poetic theories are remarkable in their clarity （诗歌理论简洁明朗）about even if they lack what Joseph Wood Krutch terms “intellectual detachment” and “catholicity of taste.” （尽管缺乏Krutch所说的“知识分子的超脱”和“大众品味） These are best elucidated （最好的证明）in his “the Philosophy of Composition” （创作原理）and “ The Poetic Principle.”（诗歌原则） The poem, he says, should be short, readable at one sitting （一口气能读完）( or as long as “The Raven”【或与诗歌”乌鸦“的长度相当】). Its chief aim is beauty, namely, to produc
