 | 1838 - 488 pages
...air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but \ve lose ever and a word or a verse, and substitute something of our own and thus miswrite the poem." The Poet (the true poet, not the mail of mere rhyme and metre) is only the utterer, the revealer, the interpreter.... | |
 | 1845 - 670 pages
...organised that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations." — " It is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem — a thought so passionate... | |
 | Margaret Fuller - 1860 - 448 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...though imperfect, become the songs of the nations." Thus have we, in a brief and unworthy manner, indicated some views of these books. The only true criticism... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate car write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music,1 we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.2 The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...organw^ ™at we can penetrate into that region Warhr "ie a'r 's raus'c" we hear those primal ™l»gs, тпore faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations. For nature... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1888 - 236 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down; but we lose ever and...something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem." The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces " that which no man foretold." " He is the Namer,... | |
 | 1889 - 706 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem." For this reporting is required the " whole burst of the human mind," and to receive the report is required,... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1891 - 312 pages
...organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus iniswrite the poem." For this reporting is required the " whole burst of the human mind," and for the... | |
 | John Rogers Rees - 1892 - 192 pages
...organised that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and...something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. " SARUM CLOSE AND COVENTRY PATMORE— THE WELL-WORN IDEAL. OFTEN wander alone through the quiet Close... | |
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down. but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse... 
