...reality but instead to pursue Beauty in its highest and widest sense. As Poe put it, "A poem, in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth" (17), a statement that also shows how deeply he was indebted to the English romantic poets like Wordsworth,...

...build up poems on these rhythmical dummies. A DEFINITION OF POETRY By EDGAR ALLAN POE A poem, in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having...is attained; romance presenting perceptible images with definite, poetry with indefinite sensations, to which end music is an essential, since the comprehension...

...made was that between poetry and prose. He mentions that a poem is distinguished from what he calls romance by having for its object an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure. He is more specific: romance presents perceptible images with definite sensations, while poetry presents...