...— but, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...understood that they compose by a species of fine phrenzy — an ecstatic intuition — and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep...

...say; but, perhaps, the autorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...at the last moment, at the innumerable glimpses of i4ea that arrived not at the maturity of full view, at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair...

...eepecial— prefer having it understood that they compose by a series of fine frenzy --an ecetatic intuition; and would positively shudder at letting...thought» at the true purposes seized only at the laet minute» a« the innumerable glimpses of ideas that arrived not at the maturity of full view»...

...— but perhaps tie authorial vanity has had more to di with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...fine frenzy— an ecstatic intuition — and would posi-ely shudder at letting the public take peep behind the scenes, at the elabote and vacillating...

...writers—poets in especial—prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy—an ecstatic intuition— and would positively shudder...elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought ... at the cautious selections and rejections—at the painful erasures and interpolations—in a word, at the...

...that they compose by a species of fine frenzy—an ecstatic intuition—and would positively sbudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes,...and vacillating crudities of thought— ... at the cautious selections and rejections—at the painful erasures and interpolations. ... It will not be...

...he compared the writer to an actor, who relies on the machinery of his craft to contrive his effect: Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it...the public take a peep behind the scenes ... at the cautious selections and rejections - at the painful erasures and interpolations - in a word, at the...

...aware that he is threatening to deprive authorship of much of its cultural power: "Most writers . . . would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes ..." But Poe's attack is not on authorship per se. Having repudiated traditional notions of the artist's...

...Romantic age, to describe the flash of inspiration by which the entire poem appeared at once. As Poe put it, "Most writers — poets in especial — prefer...species of fine frenzy — an ecstatic intuition." Yet Poe always prided himself on his analytical powers. As a result, Poe chose to present the origination...

...those who accept the more common association of imagination with spontaneous overflows of emotion: "Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...species of fine frenzy — an ecstatic intuition" (II.14). Poe, on the other hand, asserts that his creative imagination proceeds methodically, "step...