...esprimere con un'immagine e con parole quella cosa divina che è l'artista nell'atto della creazione: «Ah! then, if mine had been the painter's hand, /...that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and poet's dream»74. Principio rintracciabile nella Biographia Literaria di 73 Tra i firmatari del manifesto...

...away, or brings: 10 I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gendest of all gende Things. Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...to smile; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. 20 Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure-house divine Of peaceful years; a chronicle of heaven; Of all...

...poem, linked to the "dreamlike" quality that Browning had condemned in romanticism. Wordsworth says, Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream. (lines 13-16) These lines present the "Poet's dream" as delusory. What the poet would add to the picture...

...Wordsworth's 'Elegiac Stanzas'. Brandt, with his wide reading in English literature, probably knew the verses: Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...sea or land. The consecration, and the Poet's dream; Behind the brute reality of a landscape lay the potential for a higher truth. Brandt was seeking to...

...prior displeasure with Beaumont's painting, whose depicted castle he then naively would have situated Amid a world how different from this! Beside a sea...to smile; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. . .. A Picture had it been of lasting ease, Elysian quiet, without toil or strife; No motion but the...

...brooding on Hallam's tomb and coating it over with the semblance of divine glory, what Wordsworth called the "gleam, / The light that never was, on sea or land, / The consecration and the Poet's dream" ("Elegiac Stanzas,"ll.14-16): When on my bed the moonlight falls, I know that in thy place of rest...

...phrase to its original Miltonic meaning in book 3 of Paradise Lost: an inner light. Wordsworth speaks of the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream. (14-16) Emerson alludes to that more than natural light in "Beauty," the penultimate essay in The Conduct...

...picture then prompts Wordsworth to imagine the kind of picture he would have created from it if he could: Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...to smile; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. (lines 13-20) Had Wordsworth been a painter, he would have taken the serene reflection of the castle...