 The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry.  The Celt - Pagina 621857Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Denis Donoghue - 2003 - 228 pagina’s
...desire, hope, and imagination. In Defense of Poetry Shelley anticipates Bloch by speaking of poets as the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. Henry James called the place of hope "the country of the blue," as if it anticipated the fulfillment... | |
 | Leonora Leet - 2004 - 542 pagina’s
...Kabbalah of the Soul, pp. 122-27. attuned spirits to new modes of being that become models of the new age: "Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration;...gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. . . . Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."33 And central to the more recent thought... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2010 - 672 pagina’s
...mirror: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) in the peroration of his "Defence of Poetry" called poets "the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present" (The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck. [London: Ernest and Benn... | |
 | C. T. Hsia - 2004 - 564 pagina’s
...brand of political fiction: it is "the most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution."19 Although most famous for its admonition to novelists to lift the political level of... | |
 | Andrew Ballantyne - 2005 - 324 pagina’s
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, or follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | Deborah Brown, Annie Finch, Maxine Kumin - 2005 - 478 pagina’s
...rather than destroy the rule. . . . The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is Poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
 | James E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria - 2005 - 404 pagina’s
...analysis, writes better? On the Origin of Species: Mary Shelley Brian W. Aldiss with David Wingrove The mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. . . . — Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Defence of Poetry "The stars shone at intervals, as the clouds... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 362 pagina’s
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is Poetry. (p. 508) The poet-philosophers of the Romantic period, Shelley believed, were committed to finding... | |
 | Julie A. Carlson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Julie A Carlson - 2007 - 356 pagina’s
...to the famous declaration that "the most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is Poetry."™ This formulation repeats the strategy by which Poetry manifests its priority by swallowing up all the... | |
 | Andrew Franta - 2007 - 15 pagina’s
...for civil and religious liberty. The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is Poetry. At such periods there is an accumulation of the power of communicating and receiving intense and impassioned... | |
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