Estimations in Criticism volume 1
Estimations in Criticism volume 1
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The very same isolation and suddenness of impulse which rendered him unfit for the composition of great works, rendered him peculiarly fit to pour forth on a sudden the intense essence of peculiar feeling ' in profuse strains of unpremeditated art. ' Mr. Macaulay 2 has said that the words ' bard ' and ' inspiration, ' generally so meaningless when applied to modern poets, have a meaning when applied to Shelley. An idea, an emotion grew upon 1 Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret \ S...ept. 18, 1823.
2 Essays : ' On Southey's Edition of The Pilgrim's Progress. ' 144 ESTIMATIONS IN CRITICISM his brain, his breast heaved, his frame shook, his nerves quivered with the ' harmonious madness ' of imaginative concentration.
' Poetry, ' he himself tells us, 1 ' is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry. " The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the con- scious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The very same isolation and suddenness of impulse which rendered him unfit for the composition of great works, rendered him peculiarly fit to pour forth on a sudden the intense essence of peculiar feeling ' in profuse strains of unpremeditated art. ' Mr. Macaulay 2 has said that the words ' bard ' and ' inspiration, ' generally so meaningless when applied to modern poets, have a meaning when applied to Shelley. An idea, an emotion grew upon 1 Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret \ S...ept. 18, 1823.
2 Essays : ' On Southey's Edition of The Pilgrim's Progress. ' 144 ESTIMATIONS IN CRITICISM his brain, his breast heaved, his frame shook, his nerves quivered with the ' harmonious madness ' of imaginative concentration.
' Poetry, ' he himself tells us, 1 ' is not, like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry. " The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness ; this power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the con- scious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Bagehot Walter to read onlineMoreLess
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