James Fenton (1949) poet
Source: An Introduction to English Poetry (2002), Ch. 22: Poetic Drama and Opera (p. 125)
“When a sonnet is mediocre it is bad, for it should be sublime.”
History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), 1997 reprint, v. 7, chapter 7, p. 143
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