Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire;... Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer - Page 4by Charles Sotheran - 1876 - 51 lehteFull view - About this book
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1888 - 426 lehte
...than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the miirors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ESSAY ON THE LITERATURE, THE ARTS, AND THE MANNERS OF THE ATHENIANS. a fragment. i|HE period... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1888 - 544 lehte
...century " the herald, companion or follower of the awakening of a great people," and in all great poets " the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the...shadows which futurity casts upon the present . . . the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Across the page he has written in bold characters the words... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 lehte
...feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why. 4273 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. 4274 Shelley : A Defence of Poetry. Show me one wicked man who has written poetry, and I will show... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 lehte
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit 25 of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel 30 not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged... | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1891 - 124 lehte
...; the words which express what they understand not ; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel 30 not what they inspire ; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowl- , edged legislators of the world. v ' THE FOUR AGES OF POETRY. BY THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK. Qui... | |
| William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 lehte
...walks to-morrow. Act v., Sc. i. Shelley in his " Defence of Poetry" also has a very similar thought : " Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present." Cicero in his " Divinado" had already said, "Thus, in the beginning the world was to made that certain... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 lehte
...the spirits Actv., Sc. i. Shelley in his " Defence of Poetry" also has a very similar thought: •' here is no finer bit of prose in all literature than...world and of man: This goodly frame, the earth, seems Cicero in his " Divinatio" had already said, " Thus, in the beginning the world was so made that certain... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 lehte
...their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Holme*. o or not. La Bruyère. 10 If it is disgraceful to be beaten, it is only Schiller. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Disraeli. Poets lose half the praise... | |
| Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 250 lehte
...sincerely astonished at its manifestations ; for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration...moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. KEATS (1796-1821) Ode to the Poets. This poem was written by Keats on the blank page of Beaumont... | |
| Samuel Silas Curry - 1895 - 316 lehte
...greater force, keeping the same dignity and ease, increasing only the touch and range of voice.* 118 POETS are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. "A Defence of Poetry." _____ Shelley. 119 JUST for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon... | |
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