 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
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 | Nicholas Hasluck - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 272 pages
...words: Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to a determination of the will. Man cannot say '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 a constant wind, awakens to transitory brightness.... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 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... | |
 | 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:... | |
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