...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. ' Poetry,' says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral : it must not be instructive,...

...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. ' Poetry,* says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral, it must not be instructive, but...

...others have ever been. We have a more copious past to inspire us ! As Coleridge says of poetry, that it is " the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human emotions, passions, language ;" во we may say of our present character, that it should be the " bright...

...others have ever been. We have a more copious past to inspire us ! As Coleridge says of poetry, that it is " the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human emotions, passions, language ;" BO we may say of our present character, that it should be the " bright...

...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. * Poetry,' says Coleridge once more, ' is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, knowledge.* It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral, it must not be instructive, but...

...precisely that kind of contemplation which our recent poetry lacks. ' Poetry/ says Coleridge once more, * is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help-being moral, it must not be instructive, but...

...he would not think it presumptuous to incorporate philosophy in poetry. " No man," said Coleridge, " was ever yet a great poet without being at 'the same time a great philosopher." This would seem to mean that a great poet is a great philosopher, and more too....

...transitory flashes and a meteoric power; is DEPTH, . and ENERGY of THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a great ^ 5 poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher....intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each/ io in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction off the other. At length in the DRAMA...

...THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a great if 5 poe^wjthauiJieii^-allhe^aroetime a profound philosopher. 1 For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all...intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each 10 in its excess of strength seems to threaten the extinction of the other. At length in the DRAMA...

...ransitory flashes and a meteoric power ; is DEPTH, and ENIERGY of THOUGHT. No man was ever yet a V great poet, without being at the same time a profound...passions, emotions, language. In Shakespeare's poems thjLcreatiie power and the intellectual energy wrestle as in a war embrace. Each in its excess of strength...