..."Poetry is the first philosophy that ever was known." To this we add Coleridge's own words: "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." But while the poet is a moral philosopher, it must not be forgotten that he is first a seer ; employing...

...give promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric power, is DEPTH, and ENERGY of THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. In Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace....

...give promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric power, is DEPTH, and ENERGY of THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. In : Shakespeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace....

...remember in Milton. — Table Talk, vi. 409. No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at 15 the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is...all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, language. In Shakspeare's poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle in...

...Nothing could be apter ; if we are to have poems we must furnish them ourselves. We find never ' ' the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge,...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language," but "roots and leaves themselves alone." We find not the ' ' autobiography of a soul" ; we find the...

...poem either i sense or music,2 calls good sense the body of poetic genius,8 declares that " no man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same...profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language." * But while...

...poet and a perfect philosopher rolled into one. This, in spite of Coleridge, who hns snid, "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher." And in an untechnical sense this is true. But the outward and final processes of the two are, and always...

...naively. Nothing could be apter; if we are to have poems, we must furnish them ourselves. We find never " the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge,...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language," but " roots and leaves themselves alone." We find not the " autobiography of a soul " ; we find the...

...promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric power ; — is depth and energy of thought. No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.3 For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human 20 knowledge, human thoughts,...

...promises only of transitory flashes and a meteoric power; — its depth and energy of thought. No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same...human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. In Shakespeare's Poems the creative power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace....