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" The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture. "
The New Laokoon: An Essay on the Confusion of the Arts - Page 126
by Irving Babbitt - 1910 - 258 pages
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How to Study Shakespeare

William Hansell Fleming - 1899 - 492 pages
...of the conditions. Presently. At once. Fated. Made favorable by fate to the plan. Thy crying self. " The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind which compels the imagination to produce the picture. . . Here, by introducing...
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Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1902 - 162 pages
...etc. See 11. 38, 586-590. will give some insight into an important phase of Coleridge's poetic art. "The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture." — COLEKIDGE, Lectures...
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The International Quarterly, Volume 9

American periodicals - 1904 - 498 pages
...called forth, not to produce a distinct form, but a strong working of the mind " ; or, in other words, " The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind which compels the imagination to produce the picture." " Poetry is the identity...
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Coleridge's Literary Criticism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1908 - 296 pages
...her eyes on the opposite page, for coloured prints of what was so patiently and punctually described. The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture. Prospero tells Miranda,...
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The Romantic Movement in English Poetry

Arthur Symons - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 372 pages
...called forth, not to produce a distinct form, but a strong working of the mind ' ; or, in other words, 'The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind which compels the imagination to produce the picture.' ' Poetry is the identity...
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The Romantic Movement in English Poetry

Arthur Symons - English literature - 1909 - 362 pages
...forth, not to pit>-_ duce a distinct form, but a strong working of the mind' ; or, in other words, 'The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind which compels the imagination to produce the picture.' 'Poetry is the identity...
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Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 552 pages
...It has been ingeniously remarked, by Coleridge. " Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton," p. 116: "The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture. . . . Here, by introducing...
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Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature

William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 524 pages
...Shakespeare and Milton," p. 116: "The power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture. . . . Here, by introducing a single happy epithet, ' crying,' a complete picture is presented to the...
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The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology

Wolfgang Iser - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 414 pages
...re-creating what is rejected, so that imagination attains its presence through play. He knows that the "power of poetry is, by a single word perhaps, to instil that energy into the mind, which compels the imagination to produce the picture." This sentence forms...
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