...Tyrannus, which show at once the critical subtlety of Shelley's mind, and explain his apprehension of those 'minute and remote distinctions of feeling, whether...external nature or the living beings which surround us, ' which he pronounces, in the letter quoted in the note to the Revolt of Islam, to comprehend all that...

...himself in a letter to Godwin, December 11, 1817 : — "I am formed, if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind, to apprehend minute and...either the moral or the material universe as a whole." barely tolerated Shakespeare." But this surely is an exaggeration ; at least it is certain that in...

...rnen of the Renaissance of Wonder. " I am formed," writes Shelley, " if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind, to apprehend minute and remote distinctions of feeling" ; and the same might have been said of himself by the author of Silhouettes and London Nights, for,...

...imagination which relates to sentiment and contemplation. I am formed, if for anything not in common witli the herd of mankind, to apprehend minute and remote...either the moral or the material universe as a whole. Of course, I believe these faculties, which perhaps comprehend all that is sublime in man, to exist...

...of Shelley, vol. II. p. 571. not in common with the herd of mankiud, to apprehend miaute and reniote distinctions of feeling, whether relative to external...and to communicate the conceptions which result from cousidering either the moral or the material universe äs a whole . . ." Indem er der Menschheit neue...

...his own private feelings, as a poet he knew himself well, and he wrote to Godwin (11 Dec., 1817): " I cannot but be conscious, in much of what I write,...which is the attribute and accompaniment of Power." The result is seen in his style, which (laying aside his sovereignty in rhythms) is not so entirely...

...few things on which Shelley prided himself. ' I am framed,' he wrote, ' if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind, to apprehend minute and...of feeling, whether relative to external nature or to the living things about me.1 In conveying these distinctions he and Coleridge were quite opposed....

...he saw and felt their light. In 1817 he wrote to Godwin: "I am formed, if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind, to apprehend minute and...either the moral or the material universe as a whole." All that he means by this sentence it would be difficult to say. But undoubtedly his poems do treat...

...imagination which relates to sentiment and contemplation. I am formed, if for anything not in common with the herd of mankind to apprehend minute and remote...conscious in much of what I write, of an absence of that tranquility which is the attribute and accompaniment of power." Shelley did not consider the writing...

...extraordinarily sensitive to his surroundings. In 1817 he wrote to Godwin his belief that he was formed "to apprehend minute and remote distinctions of feeling,...either the moral or the material universe as a whole." In 1821 he wrote to Clare Clairmont: "The wind, the light, the air, the smell of a flower affects me...