...poetry is the most philosophic of all writing. It is so. Its object is truth — not individual and local, but general and operative. Not standing upon...appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal * ". Wordsworth remains still on the hither side of the gap, as does Goethe in suggesting that " The...

...Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing : it is so : its object is truth, not individual and nce. The Polar Spirit' s fellow demons, the invisible...of them relate, one to the other, that penance lon strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....

...blood," but his object is " truth not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing on external testimony, but carried alive into the heart...appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal." So wrote William Wordsworth. " The common doings and interests of men, mean as they seem, are boundless...

...mere corpora villa for their anatomical demonstrations. Or they try to reduce the poet's truth—"not standing upon external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion"— to dreary principles and dogmas. They are like Alexandrians, covering the Attic forms with their scholia;...

...poem or two which you have read, explain your your disagreement) with Uazlitt's central thought. B. "Poetry Is the image of man and nature. The obstacles which stand in the way of th» fritt" biographer and historian, and of their consequent utility, are incalculably ртелкг...

...that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: it is so: its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon...testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion; trtith which is its own testimony, which gives competence and confidence to the tribunal to which it...

...and landscapes to something universal. The object of poetry, he claimed, is truth 'not individual and local, but general and operative; not standing upon...testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion' (Ibid., p. 223). The distinctive contribution of the Romantic artists to humanism was the sense of...

...Thought . . . ' (K6O5), Wordsworth claims of poetry that: 'its object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon...external testimony, but carried alive into the heart by passion.'38 And both are concerned with the way in which the truth of immediate experience - 'Piping...

...the later Quartets aims is that which Wordsworth described as the object of poetry in general, truth 'not standing upon external testimony, but carried...heart by passion: truth which is its own testimony . . .'2 Ultimately the poem will succeed just as far as, by responding to its feeling, we are led to...

...Aristotle that: "Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing: ... its object is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative; not standing upon...into the heart by passion; truth which is its own testimony".8 Indeed, this philosophy takes the centrality of sentiment to unheard-of lengths. From...