A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquetLea and Blanchard, 1840 |
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... wisdom and virtue which surrounds him evermore with an imperishable halo of glory . With all this , how little is really known of Plato ! The translation we have is so harsh and un - English in its style , as universally to repel ...
... wisdom and virtue which surrounds him evermore with an imperishable halo of glory . With all this , how little is really known of Plato ! The translation we have is so harsh and un - English in its style , as universally to repel ...
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... wisdom . I have but one fault to find with them , or with Shelley , in my union with him . His inexpressible tenderness of disposition made him delight in giving pleasure , and , urged by this feeling , he praised too much . Nor were ...
... wisdom . I have but one fault to find with them , or with Shelley , in my union with him . His inexpressible tenderness of disposition made him delight in giving pleasure , and , urged by this feeling , he praised too much . Nor were ...
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... wisdom and virtue , and the ends of existence , rested on a noble and secure basis ; not less does that praise belong to Shelley . His Defence of Poetry is alone sufficient to prove that his views were , in every respect , congruous and ...
... wisdom and virtue , and the ends of existence , rested on a noble and secure basis ; not less does that praise belong to Shelley . His Defence of Poetry is alone sufficient to prove that his views were , in every respect , congruous and ...
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... wisdom of his philo- sophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which dis- tends , and then burst the circumference of the rea- der's mind , and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpe ...
... wisdom of his philo- sophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which dis- tends , and then burst the circumference of the rea- der's mind , and pours itself forth together with it into the universal element with which it has perpe ...
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... wisdom which is mingled with its delight . In the infancy of the world , neither poets themselves nor their auditors are fully aware of the excellence of poetry : for it acts in a divine and unapprehended manner , beyond and above ...
... wisdom which is mingled with its delight . In the infancy of the world , neither poets themselves nor their auditors are fully aware of the excellence of poetry : for it acts in a divine and unapprehended manner , beyond and above ...
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Página 29 - But poets, or those who imagine and express this indestructible order, are not only the authors of language and of music, of the dance, and architecture, and statuary, and painting; they are the institutors of laws, and the founders of civil society, and the inventors of the arts of life, and the teachers, who draw into a certain propinquity with the beautiful and the true, that partial apprehension of the agencies of the invisible world which is called religion.
Página 54 - But it exceeds all imagination to conceive what would have been the moral condition of the world if neither Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Calderon, Lord Bacon, nor Milton had ever existed...
Página 30 - But poetry in a more restricted sense expresses those arrangements of language, and especially metrical language, which are created by that imperial faculty; whose throne is curtained within the invisible nature of man. And this springs from the nature itself of language, which is a more direct representation of the actions and passions of our internal being, and is susceptible of more various and delicate combinations, than colour, form, or motion, and is more plastic and obedient to the control...
Página 62 - The persons in whom this power resides, may often, as far as regards many portions of their nature, have little apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they are the ministers. But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are yet compelled to serve, the power which is seated on the throne of their own soul.
Página 58 - Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters...
Página 57 - It is as it were the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own ; but its footsteps are like those of a wind over the sea, which the coming calm erases, and whose traces remain only as on the wrinkled sand which paves it.
Página 56 - The greatest poet even cannot say it ; 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 from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
Página 29 - A poet participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the one; as far as relates to his conceptions, time and place and number are not. The grammatical forms which express the moods of time, and the difference of persons, and the distinction of place, are convertible with respect to the highest poetry without injuring it as poetry...
Página 35 - Few poets of the highest class have chosen to exhibit the beauty of their conceptions in its naked truth and splendour ; and it is doubtful whether the alloy of costume, habit, &c., be not necessary to temper this planetary music for mortal ears.
Página 35 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.