...all time' (444). He unifies all disparate entities, and his instrument - his verse - serves as 'the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the...expression which is in the countenance of all Science' (444). Scientists seek through their method 'truth as a remote and unknown benefactor', but the poet,...

...might say of literature what Wordsworth said of poetry, the most easily immortal part of literature: it is "the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science; it is the breath of the finer spirit of all knowledge." Poetry has the easier immortality because it...

...Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the...Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, "that he looks before and after." He is the rock defence for human nature;...