...poetry is essentially vital is only to repeat what has been said by others. And Coleridge tells us that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity." His plummet sinks to the deepest depths of man's emotional nature — to those still depths; and the...

...poetry is essentially vital is only to repeat what has been said by others. And Coleridge tells us that "the poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity." His plummet sinks to the deepest depths of man's emotional nature — to those still depths; and the...

...at, whether colloquial or written. . . . What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet? that the answer to the one is involved in...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...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....

...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...