...might be remembering Wordsworth's statement that the object of poetry is truth, "not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon...appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal." 4 Whether or not we presuppose on Edmonds' part so intimate a knowledge of the Romantic poets, he evidently...

...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...passion; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....

...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...appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal. A third point is that the geologists had this in common with Wordswordi: they too had a sense of duty...

...the preface to Lyrical Ballads of truth as the object of poetry, a truth that is directed inward and "not standing upon external testimony, but carried...appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal." Shelley speaks of a similar and grand truth in the Defenst of Poetry: "A poem is the very image of...

...to the Lyrical Ballads when he says that although the object of poetry is general truth, it is truth "not standing upon external testimony, but carried...heart by passion; truth which is its own testimony" (325). The poet here resembles a witness on the stand alone, backed up not by experts or independent...

...does he address himself? And what language is to be expected of him? He is a man speaking to men .... The obstacles which stand in the way of the fidelity of the Biographer and Historian . . . are incalculably greater than those which are to be encountered by the Poet who has an adequate...

...him, the poet discovers truth "not standing upon external testimony," the testimony of the senses, "but carried alive into the heart by passion; truth...appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal" (PW, II, 394-96)." This tribunal Wordsworth was later to call Imagination. Tucked away in an obscure...

...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...passion; truth which is its own testimony, which gives strength and divinity to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives them from the same tribunal....

...centrality, the classic nature of these statements: Its [poetry's] object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative; not standing upon...heart by passion; truth which is its own testimony . . . [p. 15] Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression...

...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...alive into the heart by passion; truth which is its ouv1 testimony, which gives competence and confidence to the tribunal to which it appeals, and receives...