Perfect length for poetry?

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I think Endymion may be a tough choice because Keats wrote it at 19 and it’s quite dull reading
The mature Spenser was far better than the early Keats, but even he couldn’t make the faerie queene readable, except in parts here and there. Because it rhymes.

In his later Hyperion Keats achieved a mastery exceedingly Milton, IMO. And it’s much more readable than Endymion, being  blank verse, though only a fragment of the whole was actually written

I disagree but it's irrelevant to the discussion of length

My point was that Hyperion, though long, is still readable because it doesn’t rhyme

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I think Endymion may be a tough choice because Keats wrote it at 19 and it’s quite dull reading
The mature Spenser was far better than the early Keats, but even he couldn’t make the faerie queene readable, except in parts here and there. Because it rhymes.

In his later Hyperion Keats achieved a mastery exceedingly Milton, IMO. And it’s much more readable than Endymion, being  blank verse, though only a fragment of the whole was actually written

I disagree but it's irrelevant to the discussion of length

My point was that Hyperion, though long, is still readable because it doesn’t rhyme
The max length is hard to define. Each of the poems in the four quartets, being free verse - not a problem
Each book of paradise lost - blank verse, but readable.
So the max length would probably be around the lengths of those individual poems. Or as an organic whole, the wasteland

lol - no, I meant I disagreed with many of your points but none of my disagreement had to do with the length argument.