...philosophic. "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...

...artificial, still subordinates Art and Nature, the manner to the matter," etc. (p. n). Coleridge also wrote, "No man was ever yet a great poet without being at...profound philosopher ; for Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, thought, passion, emotion, language." In his Lectures on the English...

...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...

...have a 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...profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language." * But while...

...perfect 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...

...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 time a profound philosopher.3 For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human 20 knowledge, human thoughts,...

...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...

...give 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...profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancyof all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. In Shakespeare's...

...generations." Sidney exalts the poet above the historian and the philosopher ; and Coleridge asserts that " no man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher." Ben Jonson puts it characteristically: " Every beggarly corporation affords the State a mayor or two...