As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines... In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Milton." Edinburgh Review, 1825.

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