Verse, Poetry and Prose
The preface to Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is verse, but it is not poetry. The body of the work is poetry, but it is not verse.
Ancient Work
If a person would understand either the Odyssey or any other ancient work, he must never look at the dead without seeing the living in them, nor at the living without thinking of the dead. We are too fond of seeing the ancients as one thing and the moderns as another.