...productions, Donne reminds us that Ben Jonson esteemed him "the first poet in the world in some*t<iings." But this quality of passionate music is not the only...fire-blast, Meaning's press And screw. In the use of these ingenuities, which it was once the fashion to call " metaphysical," Donne shows an amazing pertinacity....

...death, 1834. ' With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true love-knots ; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's...forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.' l After speaking of Coleridge's ' somewhat paradoxical theory of Donne's measures and accentuations,'...

...POETRY1 WITH Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots ; Khyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. ISRAEL'S LAMENT2 'A Hebrew Dirge, chaunted in the Great Synagogue, St. James's Place, Aldgate, on the...

...Donne's Poetry WITH Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots ; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. ST COLERIDGE. ' A NEW commandment ', said the smiling Muse, ' I give my darling son, Thou shalt not...

...• on Donne : With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots ; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. And then, when the technique has been brought under easy control by long use, and the philosopher has...

...Dramatists. The Notes on Donne are very brief; they contain the famous lines describing his poetry: Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. See also Coleridge's Notes on English Divines. Many beautiful passages are quoted from the LXXX Sermons,...

...Donne is a poet, — *' Whose rouse on dromedary trots, Wreathes iron pokers into true love-knots ; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. See lewdness with theology combined, — A cynic and a sycnphantic mind, A fancy shared party per pale...

...and by Jonson:] With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw.1 3' The figures of contorting and crushing energy that command lines 2 and 4 of the epigram...

...injury to the meaning. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1817, Biographia Literario, Ch. 22 49:30 [of John Donne] Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, / Wit's forge and fireblast, meaning's press and screw. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1818, 'On Donne's Poetry' 49:31 Prose = words in their best order; poetry...

...Coleridge, 1772-1834) With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and clue, Wit's forge and fire-blast, meaning's press and screw. NIGHT FEEDING (Muriel Rukeyser, 1913-1980) Deeper than sleep but not so deep as death I lay there dreaming...