He will also see that the artificial Classifications of the different kinds of poetry, such as epic, dramatic, pastoral, satirical, the ode, the sonnet, the ballad, the didactic poem, the idyl, the elegy, etc.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
But most of the critics have resented this attitude and have gone on in the unjust Classifications that recognize as a poet the petty rhymster, who is often barren of both emotions and ideas.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
This work was done half a century before even the first beginnings of the modern Classifications of mental diseases were attempted.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh