A poem is that species of composition which is opposed to works of science by proposing for its immediate object pleasure not truth and from all species having this object in common with it it is?

A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure; not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole. From each component part it is compatible with a ratification that is distinct.