As distinct from the minor poet, says Herbert Palmer, the major poet is always a poet of quantity; not because of the amount of his output, or both Southey and Edwin Arnold would survive in our more appreciative estimation, but because quantity supplies the possibilities of range, of variety of thought and feeling and spiritual perception, of variety of technique and rhythm.
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Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 14
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