I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... The National Review - Page 369edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
| Martin Middeke, Werner Huber - 1999 - 248 pages
...cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it: for the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness [ . . . ]."23 In much the same vein and drawing largely on Coleridge, John Keats characterizes the... | |
| L. E. Sissman - 1999 - 164 pages
...cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness.") In the last years of his life Sissman sought and found the humane psychoanalytic guidance and friendship... | |
| Deborah Elise White - 2000 - 252 pages
...cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it: for the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like...conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and... | |
| Walter Göbel - 2000 - 370 pages
...damit auf eine Stelle in Shelleys A Defence of Poetry an, wo es heißt: [...] the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like...conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.48 Aus der Aufnahme und der Transformation überlieferter Bilder,... | |
| John P. Anderson - 2000 - 620 pages
...Joyce's favorite image of aesthetic arrest was from Shelly in his Defence of Poetry — the mind becomes a "... fading coal, which some invisible influence,...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness . . . ." By the image of the reddening coals, Joyce signifies Bloom's compassion and that Bloom's spiritual... | |
| Stephan Jaeger, Stefan Willer - 2000 - 260 pages
...of the Poet.8 Kein Dichter kann sagen: „I will compose poetry", „for the mind in creation is äs a fading coal which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness".9 Auch Shelley greift in eigentlich allen Texten auf eine Naturmetaphorik - wie den „inconstant... | |
| Susan Glickman - 2000 - 234 pages
...us both of Isaiah's coal and Shelley's, the "fading" one which symbolizes "the mind in creation ... which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness," and signals "the interpénétration of a diviner nature through our own."34 There are also echoes of... | |
| Martin Travers - 2001 - 372 pages
...cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it: for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity and... | |
| Patricia Cruzalegui Sotelo - 2001 - 194 pages
...will compose poetry'». Ni los poetas más grandes lo han podido decir, «for the mindin creation is as a fading coal which some invisible influence, like...awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within».67 Blake había escrito que quien creyera que el genio se adquiría era un tonto;68 Coleridge... | |
| Marta Dvořák - 2001 - 288 pages
...cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power rises from within... and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach... | |
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