...The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 1 A laca] habitation, and a name." These are the fruits of the " fine frenzy" which he asctibes to the poet, — a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential...

...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.' These are...false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which...

...poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing . A local habitation and a name.' Theso are the fruits of the ' fine frenzy ' which he ascribes...false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which...

...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.' These are...poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings arc just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought...

...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." " These are...the ' fine frenzy' which he ascribes to the poet, — aj?ne frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth indeed is essential to poetry ; but it is the...

...imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." These are...fruits of the "fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet—a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is...

...passage apparently modeled after his own idea of poetry ; to which, he says, " truth is essential, but it is the truth of madness — the reasonings are just, but the premises are false." In his view, no poet ever triumphed over greater difficulties than Milton. Because, forsooth, " He...

...all this, which so palpably implies creative power, suggests to the essayist an unsound creator. " These are the fruits of the ' fine frenzy' which he...essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness." Ibid. p. 8. Surely the young essayist must have heard of the " nor'-west madness?" But he suffered...

...condition of poetry, and that no man can rightly enjoy poetry without this unsoundness. He says : " Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is...false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which...

...imagination bodies forth The form« of things unknown, the poet'i pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing* A local habitation and a name." These are..." which he ascribes to the poet — a fine frenzy. doul>tleee, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry: but it is ihe truth of madness....