...think little of it. We look askance at poetry for the occasion, even for Royal occasions. For poetry 'is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it.' Still less can he say that he will compose joyful or lugubrious poetry, or poetry upon a given theme....

...ourselves'. 186.35-6 the mind . . . a fading coal: PB Shelley in 'A Defence of Poetry' (1821; 1840): 'Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, wh1ch some invisible influence, like an 1nconstant w1nd, awakens to trans1tory brightness; this power...

...regions where the owl-winged faculty of calculation dare not ever soar? Poetry is not like reason, 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...

...emotion recollected in tranquillity [ . . . ]."22 Percy Bysshe Shelley sets poetry apart from reasoning: "A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness [ . . . ]."23 In...

...like reasoning, a power to be determined according to the determination of the will," Shelley wrote. "A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness.") In the last...

...Bezug auf Shelley deutlich macht. Percy Bysshe Shelley schrieb in „A Defence of Poetry." „Poetry is not like reasoning; a power to be exerted according to the determination of the Tod ist die materielle Substanz (wie zum Beispiel die Kohle) vergangen und ein Teil der Energie unwiderruflich...

...instant of creativity, will is no longer self-determined. It is, rather, determined by power. 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...

...more inaccessible reaches of the self. Shelley explains, evoking one of his most famous images. 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...

...involuntary; like sexual desire in the hygienic account, it operates apart from reason and the will: "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...The greatest poet even cannot say it: for the mind is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory...

...poetic imagination as the antithesis of "the owl-winged faculty of calculation." Poetry, he insisted, "is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. It is not subject to the control of the active powers of the mind, ... its birth and recurrence has...