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The journalist-poet seems to be a hybrid born of the present day when rapidity and feverish haste are the necessary conditions to success. There is hardly a newspaper of the first class in the land that does not include a jingler in its staff.
A journalist is one thing, and a poet should be another. A combination of the two -- or rather a man who tries to do the work of both -- is very nearly a union of opposites.