...truest motives to the best and noblest ends. Bat, in the Defence, we see how this type is to be shapen : The great instrument of moral good is the imagination : and poetry administers to the effect by acting on the cause. And again, in the Preface to The Cenci : Imagination is as the immortal God which should...

...shall we quarrel with Shelley when he writes : " A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place...great instrument of moral good is the imagination " ? x True, where the imagination has gone before, the heart must follow, if real good is to result....

...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...must become his own. The great instrument of moral irood is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." 5 • I would...

...or person^ not our own. _ A_man, to be greatly_ good, must imagine intensely and jgrriprehensTygly ; he must put himself in the place of another and of...become his own. The great instrument of~ moral good jsjthe imagination ; and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry enlarges...

...himself in the place .oLjarjLOther aad of niarfy others ; the pains and" pleasures of .his.species must become his own. The great instrument of moral...good is the imagination ; and poetry administers to Jthe effect by acting upon the cause. Poetry enlarges the circumference "Of "the imaglnafion by replenishing...

...action or person not our own. A man to be greatly good must imagine intensely and comprehensibly ; he must put himself in the place of another and of...great instrument of moral good is the imagination. . . . Poetry enlarges the imagination . . . (and) strengthens the faculty which is the organ of the...

...beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person not our own. A man, to be good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...and pleasures of his species must become his own. (487-88) Insomuch as poetry helps people imagine "before unapprehended relations" (482), it should...

...greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of the moral good is the imagination.2" The notion that the essence of morality is "a going out of our...

...Little, "Interviews with Charles Johnson," 44. great instrument of moral good is the imagination. . . . Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination by replenishing it with thoughts of every new delight, which have the power of attracting and assimilating to their own nature all other...

...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...and pleasures of his species must become his own.' RB. Shelley, 'A Defence of Poetry' (Selected Prose Works of Shelley, Watts and Co., London 1915, p.87)....