The Poetry of Life (2)
by Sarah Stickney Ellis (9781150730986)

Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1835 Original Publisher: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard Subjects: Poetry Life Juvenile Nonfiction / Poetry / General Philosophy / General Philosophy / Movements / Humanism Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Science / Life Sciences / Biology / General Science / Life Sciences / Evolution Self-Help / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 131 IMPRESSION. Hitherto we have bestowed our attention upon what essentially belongs to poetry, as a medium for receiving and imparting the highest intellectual enjoyment. We now come to the qualifications for composing poetry -- the fundamental characteristics of the poet. All persons of cultivated understanding, endowed with an ordinary share of sensibility, are more or less capable of feeling what is poetical; but that all, even amongst those who attempt it, are not equal to writing poetry, is owing to their deficiency in some or all of the following qualifications: -- capacity of receiving deep impressions -- imagination -- power -- and taste. These qualifications we shall now consider separately, beginning with the first, which for want of a better term, I have called impression. We have already seen how poetry derives its existence from the association of ideas, as well as how such associations must arise out of impressions, and it follows as a natural consequence, that if this be necessary to enable a man to feel poetry, it is still more so to qualify him for writing it. Impressions are, in fact, the secret fund from whence the poet derives his most brilliant thoughts -- the material with which he works, the colouring in which he ...

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