 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1852 - 478 pages
...understand, and sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. Had he united a philosophical intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...narrow limits. He was in knowledge merely a man of Belles-lettres ; nor does he appear at any time to have betaken himself to such studies as would have... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 354 pages
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
 | Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1864 - 358 pages
...to say. From this elementary truth, he proceeded to the more abstruse and questionable tenet, that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." To what muse the highest honour is justly due, and what exercises of the poetic faculty ought to command,... | |
 | Richard Crawley - English poetry - 1868 - 114 pages
...and more philosophical views than many of his contemporaries. 49 Compare Mr. Taylor's dictum that " no man can be a very great poet, who is not also a great philosopher." I believe the converse to be nearer the truth : Aristophanes, Ilobbes, and Locke are instances in point.... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - English literature - 1877 - 494 pages
...sufficiently explains the growth of his taste. Had he united a cultivated and capacious intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...narrow limits. He was in knowledge merely a man of belles-lettres ; nor does he appear at any time to have betaken himself to such studies as would have... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1883 - 464 pages
...understand, and suffieiently explains the growth of his taste. Had he united a philosophical intellect with his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably...reading, an early acquisition of popularity by the exereise of a single talent, and an absorbing and contracting self-love, confined the field of his... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1897 - 358 pages
...what he called the intellectual and immortal part, and a want of subject-matter. ' No man,' he adds, ' can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher.' About the poetry of his own days, he says that ' whilst it is greatly inferior in quality, it continues... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - Literature, Modern - 1902 - 546 pages
...reconstruction. Hence there is a lack of great poetry, and, hence, also, the claim of a writer in 1834 that " no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher." That is, his poetry must have something more than mere superficial beauty and easy versification ;... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 536 pages
...matter, in their effusions; dwelling, as they did, in a region of poetical sentiment which did not permit them to walk upon the common earth, or to breathe...narrow limits. He was in knowledge merely a man of Belles-lettres; nor does he appear at any time to have betaken himself to such studies as would have... | |
 | John Haydn Baker - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 212 pages
...realities of nature," but it is plain that he is thinking of Wordsworth, particularly when he declares that "no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher."6 He attacks Byron both for his failure to philosophize and for his misanthropy, which... | |
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Had he united a philosophical intellect to his peculiarly poetical temperament, he would probably have been the greatest poet of his age. But no man can be a very great poet who is not also a great philosopher. Whatever Lord Byron's natural powers may... 
