 | Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...that promise by looking at a passage everywhere taken as exemplary of a Romantic idea of authority: and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. A poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination... | |
 | Sara Emilie Guyer - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 392 pages
...("Preface to Lyrical Ballads," 1: 138) Coleridge: "What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other. . . . The poet described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the... | |
 | Roger Lundin - History - 2007 - 282 pages
...the human spirit."29 Coleridge suggested, in a passage that followed his definition of poetry, that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity He diffuses a tone, and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that... | |
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What is poetry? — is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? — that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other. 
