 | Colin Falck - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 234 pages
...poetic dimension of our ordinary everyday language -can properly be said to be, in Shelley's words, "that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred."'9 » PB Shelley, A Defence of Poetry. in Shelley's Works, vol. 7. ed. HB Forman (London:... | |
 | Mihai Spariosu - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 372 pages
...of discourse take up and concretize in a particular historical manner. Poetry is "at once the center and circumference of knowledge; it is that which comprehends...must be referred. It is at the same time the root and the blossom of all other systems of thought" (53). Shelley, then, stands on its head the Socratic doctrine... | |
 | Kieran Egan - Education - 1997 - 322 pages
...Defence of Poetry (written in 1821, and first published in 1 840), in which he argues: "Poetry . . .is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge;...science, and that to which all science must be referred" (Brett-Smith, 192 1 , p. 53). He concludes that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.... | |
 | Reto Luzius Fetz, Roland Hagenbüchle, Peter Schulz - History - 1998 - 1414 pages
...des Begreifens von Welt bereitstellt (und stetig „verbessert", i. Sv verfeinert, ausdifferenziert): „Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once...root and blossom of all other systems of thought" (SPP 503). Dichtung ist also nach Shelley die wichtigste Form der Selbstbereicherung des Bewußtseins,... | |
 | Mary Poovey - Mathematics - 1998 - 450 pages
...knowledge" because it revealed the indwelling essence of things in its depictions of the things themselves. Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the...circumference of knowledge; it is that which comprehends all scionce, and that to which all science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom... | |
 | Deborah Elise White - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 252 pages
...attempted to exalt over the direct expression of the inventive and creative faculty itself. . . . [Poetry] is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge;...all science, and that to which all science must be referred.1 Ultimately, imagination determines the meaning and the value of interests that only appear... | |
 | Hans Werner Breunig - English literature - 2002 - 356 pages
...Poetry and Prose. Ed. by Alasdair DF Macrae, London: Routledge '1991, p 233.) 19 Ebd, p 227: "Poetry is something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference...comprehends all science, and that to which all science tnust be referred." 20 Wordsworth, Preface 1802: "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge:... | |
 | Patricia Cruzalegui Sotelo - English poetry - 2001 - 194 pages
...puede estar limitada por las paredes del egocentrismo contrarias a la libertad de la imaginación: «Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once, the centre and circumference of knowledge [...] at the same time, the root and the blossom of all other systems of thought, it is that from which... | |
 | Stuart Peterfreund - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 432 pages
...improvement of man" (487). 25 Reprising the agrarian metaphor that Socrates uses, Shelley argues that poetry "is at the same time the root and blossom of all other...and that which, if blighted, denies the fruit and seed, and withholds from the world the nourishment and the succession of the scions of the tree of... | |
 | R. F. Foster - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 868 pages
...Saddlemyer (eds.), The World of WB Yeats (Seattle, 1965), 53. But the key passage comes from Shelley: Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the...which, if blighted, denies the fruit and the seed, and witholds from the barren world the nourishment and the succession of the scions of the tree of life.... | |
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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... 
