 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1914 - 476 pages
...conceptions respecting man and nature. . . . Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world ; ' or, ' It is at the same time the root and blossom of all...that from which all spring and that which adorns all ; ' or, 'A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer his own solitude with sweet... | |
 | George O'Neill - English poetry - 1919 - 306 pages
...majesty and utility of poetry, Shelley warms into eloquent panegyric of his art and of its masters. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the...that to which all science must be referred. It is the perfect and consummate surface and bloom of all things; it is as the odour and the colour of the... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...countenance of all science"; a belief which Shelley reiterates when he holds that poetry is ' ' the center ntity, personalism. Whatever the name, its acceptance and thorough which rings out in the final words of his Defense: "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 272 pages
...ruined cities, and when the sun has gone down to his rest. Ibid. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 1792-1822 POETRY POETRY is indeed something divine. It is at once the...that to which all science must be referred. ... It is the perfect and consummate surface and bloom of all things; it is as the odour and the colour of the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - Criticism - 1921 - 458 pages
...too unwieldy for that which animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the center and circumference of knowledge; it is that which comprehends...science, and that to which all science must be referred. 30 It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought; it is that from which... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1923 - 224 pages
...the internal laws of human nature. The body has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the...which, if blighted, denies the fruit and the seed, arid withholds from the barren world the nourishment and the succession of the scions of the tree of... | |
 | Friedrich W. D. Brie - English literature - 1923 - 328 pages
...throne, thou Vesper of our throng!' A DEFENCE OF POETRY. (Verf. Februar und Marz 1821; veroff. 1840.) Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the...which all spring, and that which adorns all; and that 5 which, if blighted, denies the fruit and the seed, and withholds from, the barren world the nourishment... | |
 | Olwen Ward Campbell - Poets, English - 1924 - 362 pages
...for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry." " Poetry," had Shelley said before him, " is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre...science, and that to which all science must be referred. . . ." The poetic faculty, he declared, " contains within itself the seeds at once of its own and of... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1927 - 342 pages
...the internal laws of human nature. The body has then become too unwieldy for that which animates it. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the...that which comprehends all science, and that to which aD science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought... | |
 | Juan Mascaró - Religion - 1965 - 148 pages
...contemplating it from the point of view of destruction. And Shelley, speaking of poetry, can say : It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge...comprehends all science, and that to which all science 17 must be referred. It is as the odour and the colour of the rose to the texture of the elements which... | |
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Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge ; it is that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of... 
