| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...writers to Shakspeare and Milton, and yet in a mind perfectly unborrowed, and his own. To employ his own words, which are at once an instance and an illustration,...he does indeed, to all thoughts and to all objects — And the gleam. The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream.... | |
| William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 páginas
...all gentle things. Ah ! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw ; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream ; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile, Amid a world how different from this I Beside a sea that... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 596 páginas
...reads as follows: "Ah! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, / To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, / The light that never was, on sea...land, / The consecration, and the Poet's dream; // I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile / Amid a world how different from this!" 25 THE WELSH BARD... | |
| David Staines - 1982 - 237 páginas
...nature of inspiration" in Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture ofPeele Castle in a Storm: ' 'and add the gleam, / The light that never was, on sea...or land, / The consecration, and the Poet's dream." Tennyson's fondness for this poem is noted in The Idylls of the King has a prominent position within... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 páginas
...writers to Shakespear and Milton; and yet in a kind perfectly unborrowed and his own.3 To employ his own words, which are at once an instance and an illustration,...sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream. 4 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty; but if I should ever be... | |
| 1875 - 398 páginas
...that it is a real and interpretative light which the poet throws over his themes when he adds — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." The main difference between one poet and another will be found in the ability or inability to reach... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1994 - 628 páginas
...of all gentle Things. Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express what then I saw; and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a world how different from this! Beside a sea that could... | |
| Andrew Rutherford - 1995 - 536 páginas
...piping a slender Irishism, remotely reminiscent of the posy, 'Beauty is truth, that is all you know.' The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream, appear, after all, to him who has his eyes upon life, not to him who turns from it. Those who pursue... | |
| George Hughes - 1997 - 274 páginas
...Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture ofPeele Castle in a Storm, To express what then I saw - and add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream. (13-16) Considering how much Wordsworth Keats is quoting at this period, lines 30-2 of the verse-letter... | |
| Marion Montgomery - 1997 - 296 páginas
...being in things. Otherwise the poet will be led, as Wordsworth recalls was his early inclination, to "add the gleam,/ The light that never was, on sea or land,/ The consecration, and the Poet's dream." That, we shall contend, is the use Shelley would make of beauty, commanding beauty as a thing transcendent,... | |
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