Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties John Stuart Mill

A Note on the Text

Thin essay is clearly marked into two sections (and was originally published in two installments), so I have split it up into two sections. The section titles, in square brackets, are mine, not Mill's. [Paul Lyon]

Source of the Text

The essay ``Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties was originally published in The Monthly Repository, the January and October issues for 1833. I digitized it from volume one of the 1882 Henry Holt edition of Dissertations and Discussions.

Contents

• Section 1 [What is Poetry?]
• Section 2 [Poets born and poets made]