...veritable stature out, Erect, suhlime, — the measure of a man. So Wordsworth: — — Aurora Leigh. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, it is the impassioned expression which is on the face of all science. It is needless, however, to multiply quotations. The world has never doubted...

...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellowbeings. The man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.1 Emphatically may it be said of the poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, that he looks before...

...marvellous. It has left scope enough for the loftiest imagination and the deepest insight of any poet who " rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion." And Wordsworth, by fulfilling this ideal, has given substance and meaning to his own splendid definition...

...Shakespeare " ? Wordsworth, who has influenced all the poets since his day, declares poetry to be " the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science." Matthew Arnold accepts this dictum, and uses it to further his own...

...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he...visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the brealh and finer spirit of all knowledge; it k is the impassioned expression which is in the. countenance...

...as a remote and unknown benefactor ; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude : the Poet, winging a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. I Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is...

...not have been a great poet.' Compare also Wordsworth's famous definition in the Preface of 1802 : ' Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge : it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science.' And Letters, p. 372 (Coleridge to Sotheby, July, 1802) : 'You will...

...us, and by no habitual and direct sympathy connecting us with our fellow-beings. The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he...in which all human beings join with him, rejoices iu the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer...

...systems of thought." And Wordsworth : " Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; . . . the poet, singing a song in which all human beings...truth as our visible friend and hourly companion." And Emerson : " The only teller of news is the poet. When he sings, the world listens with the assurance...

...own conception of poetry, and we need do no more than judge him by his own laws. 'Poetry,' he says, 'is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the imp•issioned expression which is in the countenance of all science." ' The poet thinks and feels...