...necessary means to evoke the highest development of their genius. Shelley has said of poets : " Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in soug." Does any one suppose that Burns would have sung as he did, had he been rich, respectable, and...

...poets have often been prompted by the acuteness of their personal sufferings. As Shelley says, they are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. The most facetious of all Charles Lamb's letters was written to Bernard Barton in a fit of the deepest...

...will, And receive it hush'd and stUl. Suffering is my "worship now . 3247. SUFFERING. Fruits of MOST n Shelley. Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss ; Thou hast gain'd, in the...

...exquisite sensibilities. Has not the author of Julian and Maddalo indeed himself declared that " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song ?" For this reason we are bound to trace the connection between his individual life and song. Save...

...are in the WRONG To speak before your time. SHAKBSPERE, Measure for Measure, act v. so. 1. — Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by WRONG ; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. SHELLEY, Julian and Maddalo. — Yon have a WRONG sow by the ear. BUTLER, Iftidibras, part ii. canto...

...Certainly, the axiom of Shelley, in his " Julian and Maddalo," as echoed by him from Byron, that " Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song," did not apply to Hurdis. He had no such cradling, and no such lesson is conveyed in his poems. He was...

...popular songs with any pretension to poetry. Shelley, versifying a remark of Byron's, wrote :— Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. But all wretched men are not poets, nor, happily, are all poets wretched men. Few, even of the most...

...in measure were called poetry, And I remember one remark which then Maddalo made. He said : " Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song." If I had been an unconnected man I, from this moment, should have formed some plan Never to leave sweet...

...Strive not, for life is care, And God sends pain ; Heaven is above, and there Rest will remain ! Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song. SHELLEY : Julian and Maddolo. Then patient bear the sufferings you have earn'd, And by these sufferings...

...Certainly, the axiom of Shelley, in his " Julian and Maddalo," as echoed by him from Byron, that " Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong : They learn in suffering what they teach in song," did not apply to Hurdis. He had no such cradling, and no such lesson is conveyed in his poems. He was...