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(Distillation of the comments:) Are you talking about the famous J. Evans Pritchard quoted in Dead Poets Society? He is apparently a pseudonym for Laurence Perrine, and the text is more or less ta...
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(Distillation of the comments:) Are you talking about the famous [J. Evans Pritchard](http://emptymirror.livejournal.com/84005.html) quoted in _Dead Poets Society_? He is apparently a pseudonym for Laurence Perrine, and the text is more or less taken from [_Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry._](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1428289704)