 ... when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet.  The Textual Condition - Page 8by Jerome J. McGann - 1991 - 208 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 320 pages
...durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on...a feeble shadow of the original conception of the Poet. I appeal to the great poets of the present day, whether it be not an error to assert that the... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 338 pages
...Crazy Jane into a Jungian context. 24 a fading vision "The mind in creation is as a fading coal. . . . when composition begins, inspiration is already on...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet" (Shelley's "Defence of Poetry," in Shelley's Prose, cd. DL Clark [Albuquerque:... | |
 | Charles Swann - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 298 pages
...poetry." Shelley is quoted in support of this view: "when composition begins, inspiration is already on decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever...a feeble shadow of the original conception of the Poet."5 The most relevant of Hawthorne's references to Coleridge appears in "A Select Party," published... | |
 | Mcgann - Literary Criticism - 2014 - 180 pages
..."text." A Romantic observer of this process like Shelley found it to be a matter of disappointment. When composition begins, inspiration is already on...a feeble shadow of the original conception of the Poet. 92 Nevertheless, and as we have already seen, the literary work is always produced under institutional... | |
 | Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 332 pages
...durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results: but when composition begins, inspiration is already on...a feeble shadow of the original conception of the poet. (SPP 503-4) The subjunctive mood of "Could this influence be durable ..." admits defeat ahead... | |
 | David L. Petersen - Religion - 2009 - 132 pages
...potentially. ... A great poem is a fountain for ever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight. . . . The most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably but a shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. . . . Poetry turns all things to loveliness.13... | |
 | Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - Poetry - 1993 - 520 pages
...passage of A Defence of Poetry, Shelley points out that "the mind in creation is as a fading coal. . . . when composition begins, inspiration is already on...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet" (Shelley's Prose, ed. David Lee Clark [Albuquerque, 1954], pp. 172, 294).... | |
 | Anne Kostelanetz Mellor - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 292 pages
...for as Percy Shelley insisted in A Defense of Poetry, "the mind in creation is as a fading coal" and "when composition begins, inspiration is already on...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet." " The poet's spoken words are thus, as Shelley put it in Ode to the West... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Poetry - 1994 - 752 pages
...durable in its original purity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dialogues, Greek - 1994 - 796 pages
...original purity 10 and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness of the reeaita results: but when composition begins inspiration is already on...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. I appeal to the greatest Poets of the present day, whether it is 15 not an... | |
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