Why is poetry the highest form of literature?

You have raised a question that has been raised twice on a much larger scale in the history of English literature. Both the times, poetry was well defended, and hence it is still regarded as the highest form of literature. I am one of those who are in favour of the statement. It is a divine form. read more

Form in poetry. People nowadays who speak of form in poetry almost always mean such externals as regular measure and rhyme, and most often they mean to get rid of these in favour of the freedom they suppose must follow upon the absence of form in this limited sense. But in fact a poem having only one form would be of doubtful interest even if it could exist. read more