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About this space

Poetry is dressed in a garment that falls in severe lines, which suggest the epic and the more serious forms of drama, rather than the lighter aspects of the muse.

Poetry, sculptor:
John Quincy Adams Ward (1830–1910)

Above the figure of Poetry:
Hither, as to their fountain, other stars
Repairing, in their golden urns draw lights.
—John Milton (1608–1674), Paradise Lost, vii, 364