...courage to see, with Quevedo, life as it is really lived, in the bowels of hell.102 ' l Libido sciendi' Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such...compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ... (Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 5. 1 .4-9) By going where no other author of his time...

...lunatic, the lover and the poet", says Theseus in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (5.1. 8-18): Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils...Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies...

...fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are in imagination all compact: One sees more devils than...as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. . . . (V, i, 4-1 1 ) To come a little more up to date, sex researcher John Money has suggested that...

...workmen are speaking together. think the line endings should come. There are six and a half lines. Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such...devils than vast hell can hold: that is the madman. b) Write the lines as blank verse, using capital letters for the start of each line. Highlight the...

...theories of art as the lines of Theseus in A Midsummer Night 's Dream, VI7ff The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees...a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. And as imagination bodies forth The...

...these brief moments. He repeated that passage, and sang it out as his own: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees...a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And, as imagination bodies forth The...

...same point in act 5 when he links the madman with the lover and the poet: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees...a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The...

...favorite passage came from act 5, scene 1 of A Midsummer Night's Dream: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees...a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The...

...are? The men who have failed in literature and art. - Benjamin Disraeli The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees...That is, the madman; the lover all as frantic, Sees Helan's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven...

...seen the power of "unreason": Hippolyta: Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of. Theseus: More strange than true. I never may believe These...a brow of Egypt. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The...