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" 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... "
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ... - Page 418
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Modernisierung und Literatur: Festschrift für Hans Ulrich Seeber zum 60 ...

Walter Göbel - 2000 - 370 pages
...coal.'1 Joyce spielt 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...brightness: this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures...
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Finding Joy in Joyce: A Readers Guide to Ulysses

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...
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Das Denken der Sprache und die Performanz des Literarischen um 1800

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...
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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism: A Reader in Aesthetic ...

Martin Travers - 2001 - 372 pages
...like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot...brightness: this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures...
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The Female Sublime from Milton to Swinburne: Bearing Blindness

Catherine Maxwell - 2001 - 292 pages
...there lies unspoken the idea that in their withdrawal they may expose the subject to imaginative death: The mind in creation is as a fading coal which some...brightness; this power arises from within like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed and the conscious portions of our natures...
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El platonismo romántico de Shelley

Patricia Cruzalegui Sotelo - 2001 - 194 pages
...cannot say, 'I will compose poetry'». Ni los poetas más grandes lo han podido decir, «for the mindin creation is as a fading coal which some invisible...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...
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Whitman Possessed: Poetry, Sexuality, and Popular Authority

Mark Maslan - 2001 - 250 pages
...will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it: for the mind is as a fading coal which some invisible influence,...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness . . . and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure"...
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"Das Heilige sei mein Wort": Paradigmen prophetischer Dichtung von Klopstock ...

Bernadette Malinowski - 2002 - 468 pages
...reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, „I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot...brightness: this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures...
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Structural Idealism: A Theory of Social and Historical Explanation

Doug Mann - 2002 - 322 pages
...unconscious in the work of the Romantics, for example, in Shelley's The Defence of Poetry, where he says that "the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some...brightness; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures...
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Shelley Among Others: The Play of the Intertext and the Idea of Language

Stuart Peterfreund - 2002 - 432 pages
...against willing oneself to write a poem. As he argues, using imagery redolent of Platonic discourse, "the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some...inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness" (503-4). The speaker's "Ashes and sparks" may sputter toward extinction, as well as toward dematerialization,...
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