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

...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...

...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. ' ' lien Jonson puts it characteristically : " Every beggarly corporation affords the State a mayor...

...Ashe's ed. of Miscellanies, p. 347). In the Biographia (ch. xv., Bohn ed., p. 155) he writes: " No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same...all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotion, language." (Cp. Wordsworth's "The breath and finer spirit of all knowledge." Pref. to Lyrical...

...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, 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, 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, emotion, knowledge." It should not ba 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, 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, emotion, knowledge.' It should not be didactic, it cannot help being moral : it must not be instructive,...