Biographia Literaria, 1817, Volume 2 |
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... imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a poet ? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other . For it is a dis- tinction resulting from the poetic genius it- self , which ...
... imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a poet ? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other . For it is a dis- tinction resulting from the poetic genius it- self , which ...
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... IMAGINATION . ) " Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts ...
... IMAGINATION . ) " Doubtless this could not be , but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange , As fire converts to fire the things it burns , As we our food into our nature change . From their gross matter she abstracts ...
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... IMAGINATION in the highest and strictest sense of the word . In the play of Fancy , Wordsworth , to my feelings , is ... imaginative power , he stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakespear and Milton ; and yet perfectly unborrowed ...
... IMAGINATION in the highest and strictest sense of the word . In the play of Fancy , Wordsworth , to my feelings , is ... imaginative power , he stands nearest of all modern writers to Shakespear and Milton ; and yet perfectly unborrowed ...
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