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" 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 369
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Shelley's Literary and Philosophical Criticism

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 pages
...determination of the will. A man cannot say, ' I wil compose poetry.' "TKe greatest poet even cannot saj it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind awakens to transitory brightness ; thjs power arises!...
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English Essays from Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay: With Introductions, Notes ...

Charles William Eliot - English essays - 1910 - 440 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...
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1785-1824

Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...living. — WEBSTER, DANIEL, 1820, Discourse Delivered at Plymouth on the 22nd of December. Poetry most some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises...
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Shelley's Prose in the Bodleian Manuscripts

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library - 1910 - 160 pages
...owl-winged faculty of calculation f. 42 rev. dare not ever soar ? Poetry is not like reasoncont. ing5 a pOWer to be exerted according to the determination...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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An Anthology of Modern English Prose (1741 to 1892)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 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...
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Shelley and His Friends in Italy

Helen Rossetti Angeli - British - 1911 - 416 pages
...mind and faculties the " Defence " is infinitely valuable. " A man cannot say," Shelley writes, " ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness...
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The Making of Poetry: A Critical Study of Its Nature and Value

Arthur H. R. Fairchild - Poetry - 1912 - 286 pages
...Goethe, "that no thinking will bring such thoughts; we must be made right by nature." And Shelley says: "A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it; for . . . poetry . . . differs in this respect from logic, that it is not subject to the control of the...
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Englische Studien, Volume 44

Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1912 - 522 pages
...kunst, speziell der poesie, eine solche Scheidung, wenn auch nicht klar bewußt, zugrunde. „Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will" (PrW. III 137). Von der poetischen Schaffenskraft sagt er: „the conscious portions of our nature...
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Lyric Poetry, Volume 2

Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1913 - 410 pages
...Shelley, as one would have him, believed in the daemonic possession of the lyric poet : — " 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 inconsistent wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power...
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Joyous Gard

Arthur Christopher Benson - Bookbinding - 1913 - 300 pages
...passage in Shelley's Defence of Poetry. He says: " A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry'—the greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is like a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakes to transitory brightness....
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