 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...in the soluion of the other. For it is a distinction esulting from the poetic genius itself, rhich sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind. The poet, described in [340 ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English Prose Literature - 1917 - 716 pages
...preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination. 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. For jit is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself, which '. sustains and modifies the images,... | |
 | Ivor Armstrong Richards - Criticism - 1924 - 304 pages
...running lead, Which slipped through cracks and zigzags of the head. Opposed to him is the poet who "described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity. . . ." His is "a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order ; judgment ever awake,... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1927 - 408 pages
...existence, and in the knowledge of which consists our dignity and our power.' The Imagination, in sum: ' Brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of the faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity . . . reveals itself in the... | |
 | Giles Gunn - Religion - 1979 - 265 pages
...expressive theories of art when he remarked that "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."12 Coleridge defined the poet in his ideal perfection as the creature who "brings the whole... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 pages
...preceeding disquisition on the fancy and imagination. What is poetry? is so nearly the same question, with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved...perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, witli the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity.... | |
 | L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 246 pages
...clearly on the famous passage on the imagination at the end of Chapter x1v of the Biograpbia, beginning, 'The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity . . .' Professor Wellek has said some hard things about this,13 but even its 'random eclecticism' cannot... | |
 | James Gribble - Education - 1983 - 196 pages
...imply an activity on the part of the reader which in some sense corresponds with that of the poet. 'The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity.'14 The critic, described in ideal perfection, is one who can elucidate and, hopefully, prompt... | |
 | William E. Cain - Fiction - 1984 - 268 pages
...this passage himself, for his own purposes, in his essay on Andrew Marvell's poetry of "wit" in 1921: 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,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...preparing to concentrate on poetic language, inserts here (Chapter 14) the famous paragraph that states: "The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity . . . [blending and fusing through the imagination] the general, wi'h the concrete; the idea, with... | |
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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. 
