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In one of his happy phrases the poet tells us that " Poetry should please by a fine excess"; and no one could strike the note of "fine excess" more triumphantly. Yet in his most perfect work, in the Odes, La Bella, Dam sans Merci, and that fragment The Eve of St. Mark, he shows that the pleasure of poetry depends no less on the fine restraint.With these words, you might have guessed the poet
