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Page xxxvi
... poetry is conceived . The man must be as large , nay , he must be larger than his subject , and whether Keats was or was not the Titan he dreamed of we shall never know . Like the scenes ... POETS AND POETRY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
... poetry is conceived . The man must be as large , nay , he must be larger than his subject , and whether Keats was or was not the Titan he dreamed of we shall never know . Like the scenes ... POETS AND POETRY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Page xxxviii
... poet fails to surmount both his nature and his culture ( the latter in especial ) that one should look in ac- counting for such a failure . Somehow , if the finality which we call poetry is to be arrived at , the poet's entire knowledge ...
... poet fails to surmount both his nature and his culture ( the latter in especial ) that one should look in ac- counting for such a failure . Somehow , if the finality which we call poetry is to be arrived at , the poet's entire knowledge ...
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... Poetry is not like reasoning , a power to 5 be exerted according to the determination of the will . A man cannot say , " I will compose poetry . " The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal ...
... Poetry is not like reasoning , a power to 5 be exerted according to the determination of the will . A man cannot say , " I will compose poetry . " The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal ...
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