 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,...  A Reader's History of American Literature - Página 246por Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton - 1903 - 327 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 páginas
...soar ? 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...brightness ; \this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 312 páginas
...soar ? 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...awakens to transitory brightness\ this power arises '*,"'. t* • from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 páginas
...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,...an inconstant wind awakens to transitory brightness ; thjs power arises! frorp. irithinj like the colour of a flower which fades / . j and changes as it... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...December. 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...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library - 1910 - 160 páginas
...Poetry is not like reasoncont. ing5 a pOWer to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest...brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of 1 of all... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 páginas
...soar? 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...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature... | |
 | Helen Rossetti Angeli - 1911 - 416 páginas
...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... | |
 | Arthur H. R. Fairchild - 1912 - 286 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1913 - 410 páginas
...— " 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...fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconsistent wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour... | |
 | 1913 - 462 páginas
...the way and the limits.' This is precisely what Shelley says of poetry: 'The mind in creation is like a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness. . . . When composition begins, inspiration is already on the wane.' Or Shakespeare's: 'Thence comes... | |
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