 | Alexander Gilchrist, Anne Burrows Gilchrist - 1863 - 366 pages
...secretary ; the authors are in Eternity. I consider it as the grandest Poem that this world contains. Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime Poetry. It is also somewhat in the same manner defined by Plato.... | |
 | 1868 - 904 pages
...well defy all commentary. To strive to bring order out of their primordial chaos is to deetroy them. " Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding," is the author's definition of the most sublime poetry, and if lacking in scientific exactness, it is... | |
 | Algernon Charles Swinburne - 1868 - 354 pages
...stammer, intolerable to organs of flesh. " Allegory/' the too obedient secretary writes to his friend, " addressed to the intellectual powers, while it is...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime poetry." A better perhaps could not be given ; as far that is... | |
 | 1870 - 936 pages
...are several definitions of poetry, all differ1870.] [AUGUST, ent, perhaps all true : Blake saya : " Allegory, addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime poetry." Poe : •' I would define the poetry of words as the... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1895 - 290 pages
...secretary ; the authors are in eternity. I consider it as the grandest poem that this world contains. Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime poetry." Blake's allegory so effectually eludes both the reason... | |
 | Frank Stephen Granger - 1900 - 372 pages
...grand reason of my being brought down here. I consider it as the grandest poem that the world contains. Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime poetry." And the allegory of this poem turns, we are told, in... | |
 | Frank Granger - 1900 - 470 pages
...the poetic spirit. And so we can almost agree with Blake's definition of the most sublime poetry as " allegory addressed to the intellectual powers while it is altogether hidden from the corporeal 1 Life, by Villari, 1896 ed., p. 118. understanding." There is no doubt whatever that to the average... | |
 | William Blake, Frederick Tatham - 1906 - 376 pages
...secretary ; the authors are in eternity. I consider it as the grandest poem that this world contains. Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime poetry.2 It is also somewhat in the same manner defined by Plato.... | |
 | William Blake, Frederick Tatham - 1906 - 322 pages
...secretary ; the authors are in eternity. I consider it as the grandest poem that this world contains. Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while...altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime poetry.2 It is also somewhat in the same manner defined by Plato.... | |
 | Edwin John Ellis - 1907 - 500 pages
...Queen Katherine and a Romeo and the Apothecary, both after Fuseli, published in 1804 by Rivington. Blake also illustrated ballads for Hayley — Little...getting on very well, and that he had at last got a protege worth patronising. He calls him "our good Blake," "excellent Blake," and " indefatigable Blake,"... | |
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Allegory addressed to the intellectual powers, while it is altogether hidden from the corporeal understanding, is my definition of the most sublime Poetry. 
