 Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...  The National Review - Page 369edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1891 - 132 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be/ exerted according to the determination of tha will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry.."! I The_grgatest_p_oetjeven cannot^ say it; for... | |
 | Religion - 1892 - 822 pages
...but the poet would proceed to disregard it by setting aside all its requisitions. Shelley says that a man cannot say, " ' I will compose poetry.' The...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 250 pages
...fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | 1894 - 706 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the 1 See Letter to Oilier, Jan. 20, 1820, Shelley Memorials, p. 135. mind in creation ia as a fading coal,... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 366 pages
...fire from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 502 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | James Thomson - English literature - 1896 - 692 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1897 - 682 pages
...from those eternal regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in5o creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Literature - 1897 - 256 pages
...but the poet would proceed to disregard it by setting aside all its requisitions. Shelley says that a man cannot say, " ' I will compose poetry.' The...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...necessity of special inspiration. In his prose work " Defence of Poetry," written in 1820, he says: "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises... | |
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