 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
 | C. C. Barfoot - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 340 pages
...cannot be willed. This is quite consonant with Edwin Morgan's comments — he quoted Shelley: "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...determination of the will. A man cannot say 'I will compose poetry1 .... the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence ... awakens to... | |
 | Gary Saul Morson - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 356 pages
...this alternative tradition, the new comes by revelation to a poet who is essentially passive. "Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will," writes Shelley. "A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry' . . . for the mind in creation is as a fading... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dialogues, Greek - 1994 - 796 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 r " jfajutibf- t** ***~ &*H&~* fabo*^&. fa i& /kj/Ha^fl***) 45) A Defence of Poetry. the determination... | |
 | David R. Fideler - Philosophy - 1995 - 502 pages
...mysterious and extrahuman about artistic creation. Shelley wrote in his A Defence of Poetry that Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according...poet even cannot say it: for the mind in creation is asa fading coal which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness:... | |
 | Leo Bogart - Business & Economics - 1995 - 401 pages
...Shelley expressed the same sentiments: A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet cannot say it. For the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible muse, like the inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. 56 The entire commercial... | |
 | Plato - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 268 pages
...Page references are to Shelley's poetry and prose, ed. DH Reiman and S. B. Powers (New York 1977). according to the determination of the will. A man...for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to brightness' (503-4). And Shelley implicitly... | |
 | Peter Brian Medawar - Science - 1996 - 260 pages
...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.... | |
 | James Joyce - Artists - 1998 - 1060 pages
...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... | |
 | James Chandler - History - 1999 - 616 pages
...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... | |
 | Martin Middeke, Werner Huber - Literary Collections - 1999 - 248 pages
...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... | |
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