 All high poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem is a fountain for ever overflowing with the waters of...  Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 5031924Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Olwen Ward Campbell - 1924 - 356 Seiten
...he himself said of Dante : " His 1 Arnold, The Buried Life. * Hellas. ' Defence of Poetry, ad fin. very words are instinct with spirit ; each is as a...first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1924 - 636 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor, ^dl higE_ poetry is infinite ; it is as the first acorn,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty of the meaning never exposed. A great poem... | |
 | Gerrit Dekker - 1926 - 268 Seiten
...aardsheid, in sy mees gekonsentreerde, sy rypste, sy rykste vorm. Sy eie woorde is op hom toepaslik: „His very words are instinct with spirit, each is...spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought"; 3) „and many (of his words) yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with the lightning,... | |
 | 1920 - 412 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit ; each is...their birth, and pregnant with the lightning which has as yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all... | |
 | 1928 - 898 Seiten
...words in a poet's pack, our quest will not have been in vain. "His very words," wrote Shelley on Dante, "are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of inextinguishable thought." Words are the poet's pack, the poet who, to-day almost alone, conveys to this world the stark beauty... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1996 - 424 Seiten
...238-23g (hereafter cited as Translationl. 23. The most familiar image is Shelley's reference to Dante: "His very words are instinct with spirit; each is...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor"; in The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 Seiten
...century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn,... | |
 | F.R. Burwick - 1987 - 320 Seiten
...fruit of latest time. . . . The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower. . . . All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. . . . [Poetry] is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought . . . that... | |
 | Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 433 Seiten
...palimpsest of several figural levels and a deferral of figures toward later transformations of them: His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as...covered in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant with a lightning which has yet found no conductor. All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn,... | |
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