...Poet. "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. " A poet is a man endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul than are supposed to be common among mankind. " The object of poetry is truth, not individual and local, but general and operative ; not standing...

...Proceeding, then, from the abstract to the concrete, he defines the poet to be " a man speaking to men, a man who has a greater knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive soul than most men, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him." He enumerates...

...his poetic material. A poet, he writes, "is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with he nerve of sense is numb, Spirit a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit...

...doctrine, use the larger word, artist. "He is a man, speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit...

...own words which are significant. A Poet " is a man speaking to men : a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit...

...success will hardly come to a writer unless he is what Wordsworth demands of the poet, that he be one "who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and...comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind."84 The artist's character, of which Brownson speaks, concerns us only in so far as it is visible...

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...what language is to be expected from him ? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with er voice than rude style: which being so evil apparreled...in the gorgeous eloquence of Pindar!" Sidney's pr a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit...

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...language is to be expected from him ? — He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,...soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind ; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit...