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" I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness... "
Shelley's Process: Radical Transference and the Development of His Major Works - Page 11
by Jerrold E. Hogle - 1989 - 432 pages
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The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life

Carleton Eldredge Noyes - 1907 - 306 pages
...the instant into desire, which becomes the urge to creation. "The mind in creation," says Shelley, " is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence,...wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power rises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the...
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Estimations in Criticism, Volume 1

Walter Bagehot - 1908 - 294 pages
...of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic...
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Shelley's Literary and Philosophical Criticism

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 pages
...of the will. A man cannot say, ' I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic...
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Shelley's Literary and Philosophical Criticism

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 312 pages
...will. A man cannot say, ' I will ., compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say ,**' ' it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which '...awakens to transitory brightness\ this power arises '*,"'. t* • from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed,...
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Shelley's Literary and Philosophical Criticism

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 304 pages
...of the will. A man cannot say, ' I wil compose poetry.' "TKe greatest poet even cannot saj it ; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...an inconstant wind awakens to transitory brightness ; thjs power arises! frorp. irithinj like the colour of a flower which fades / . j and changes as it...
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1785-1824

Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it ; for shment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled,...by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic...
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Shelley's Prose in the Bodleian Manuscripts

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bodleian Library - 1910 - 160 pages
...of the will. A man cannot say, 'I will compose poetry.' The greatest poet even cannot say it : for the mind in creation is as a fading coal which some...power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of 1 of all things. Edd. —...
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English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay

Charles W - 1910 - 466 pages
...of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and' the conscious portions of our natures...
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An Anthology of Modern English Prose (1741 to 1892)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...of the will. A man cannot say, " I will compose poetry ". The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic...
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Models for Study

1911 - 200 pages
...of the will. A man can not say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even can not say it, for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some...brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our nature...
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