...poetry is essentially vital is only to repeat what has been said by others. And Coleridge tells us that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity." His plummet sinks to the deepest depths of man's emotional nature — to those still depths; and the...

...poetry is essentially vital is only to repeat what has been said by others. And Coleridge tells us that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity." His plummet sinks to the deepest depths of man's emotional nature — to those still depths; and the...

...genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. I left our cottage threshold, salfying forth With...far-distant wood, a figure quaint,. Tricked out in proud d 1 The free spirit ooght to be urged onward. Satyric p. 63. * See Poc s The Poetic Principle, In which...

...nicht auf die kalte art des wissenschafters, sondern indem sie unsere seele in schwingungen versetzt. "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...other according to their relative worth and dignity . . ." (ebd., p. 166). Die poesie mufs "impassioned" sein, "able to move our feelings and awaken our...

...genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...and spirit of unity, that blends and (as it were) 1 Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667. * Published in Latin 1681, in English 1684. fuses each into each, by that...

...the function of the great poet, recalls the famous definition of the poet formulated by Coleridge: "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...other, according to their relative worth and dignity." Some such general theory of the psychological functions that produce literature, and of their trustworthiness...

...the function of the great poet, recalls the famous definition of the poet formulated by Coleridge: "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...other, according to their relative worth and dignity." Some such general theory of the psychological functions that produce literature, and of their trustworthiness...

...favorite word "synthesis" not merely as applied to images as such, but to all the faculties of the soul: "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the...relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and a spirit of unity, that blends, and as it were fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical...

...full of life and love, must have a sense of the immenseness of the good and fair ; he must " bring the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination...other according to their relative worth and dignity " 10 — imagination, will, intellect, emotion; not only must he have fine perceptions of spiritual...

...illustrates here the essential constructive power of the poet's imagination as described by Coleridge : " He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends,...each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination." The extraordinary wealth of idea and of image...