 | Kathryn Sutherland - Computers - 1997 - 264 pages
...Literary Imagination. Special Issue on Editing the Imagination. ed. Tom Quirk. 29 (1996(. 53-74. 31. '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 werel fuses earh into each. by... | |
 | Richard P. McKeon - Philosophy - 1998 - 389 pages
...to be a manifestation of the powers of a poet. "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."" In his analysis of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis in chapter 15 of the Biographia Literaria he distinguishes... | |
 | W. Speed Hill, Edward M. Burns, Peter L. Shillingsburg - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 458 pages
...Now, from a post,Newtonian and post-empiricist position, it is very easy for us to argue against 18 "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... | |
 | David C. Greetham - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1998 - 636 pages
...components of the national interest. We are all familiar with the Coleridgean definition of the poet: "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 " Mark Rose, Authors and Owners; Margreta... | |
 | Gerald L. Bruns - Literary Collections - 1999 - 315 pages
...('This is simply what I do").7 As Coleridge said, "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 to the other."8 So an inquiry into the conditions that make poetry possible will henceforward require... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 358 pages
...forward to what in the Biographia Literaria Coleridge held to be the proper definition of the ideal poet: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity... He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity... by that synthetic ... power, to which we have exclusively... | |
 | Lucy Newlyn - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 292 pages
...Christabel cannot be cleansed. Coleridge maintained his faith in Schiller's ideal of the schone Seele: The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity' (BL ch. 14). But in a fallen world, where perfection waits to be realised, the notion of intention... | |
 | Ian Tregenza - History - 2003 - 254 pages
...[4] Cf. Coleridge, ch.14, Biographia Literaria: 'What is poetry? is nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved...images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind.' From Selected Poetry and Prose of Coleridge (random House, 1951), ed. D. Stauffer. questions — all... | |
 | Paul Dawson - Education - 2005 - 268 pages
...form of his passion. He argued that the question 'What is Poetry? Is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? That the answer to the one is involved...images, thoughts and emotions of the poet's own mind' (173). While the imagination had tended to be seen as a faculty which the poet could employ for his... | |
 | Patricia Waugh - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 632 pages
...question with "what is a poet?" ', declares Coleridge in chapter 14 of his Biographia Literaria (1817), 'that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other.' Coleridge goes on to define the poet 'in ideal perfection' in terms of his ability to unify, balance,... | |
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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. 
