 fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 431edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
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 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...can write or even enjoy poetry 'without a certain unsoundness of mind.' The truth of poetry is 'the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false.' We cannot unite the incompatible advantages of reality and deception, the clear discernment .of truth... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 396 pages
...89: »...an art to produce an illusion on the imagination...« »Those first suppositions [of poetry] require a degree of credulity which almost amounts...partial and temporary derangement of the intellect.« 9. E, i, 196: »Our judgement ripens, our imagination decays.« Seite 199: ». . .strongest in savages,... | |
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