...own astute remark about poetry at its best - a remark that kept me going and still keeps me going: 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...

...HAZLITT (1778-1830), English essayist. Lectures on the English Poetó, "On Poetry in General" (1818). 4 ersity Press a lightning which has yet found no conductor. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1 792-1 822), English poet. A Defence...

...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,...

...century shone forth from republican Italy, af as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world. His very words are instinct with spirit; each is as a spark, a burning atom of 25 inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered tip in the ashes of their birth, and pregnant...

...Most relevant to the Ode, though, is the account of how this light was generated out of the poetry: "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."39 "Spirit," "spark " "inextinguishable," "ashes," 37....

...Curran (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 44. 4. Cf. a little later in the text: "All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn which contained all oaks potentially." A Defence of Poetry, in Shelley's Poetry and Prose, selected and edited by Donald H. Reiman and Sharon...

...inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie 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 acom, which contained all oaks potentially. Veil after veil may be undrawn, and the inmost naked beauty...

...'Defence of Poetry' (1821) schrijft de romantische dichter Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) het volgende. 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...

...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 a spark, 52 a burning atom of inextinguishable thought; and many yet lie covered in the ashes of their birth,...

...makes an implicit argument about the relationship between poetic inspiration and poetic reception: 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,...