Excerpt: ...See J. G. Percival, Genius Awaking, for the same figure. Again, the crash of the poet's inspiration upon his ordinary modes of thought is compared to "fearful claps of thunder," by Keats Footnote: See Sleep and Poetry. and others. Footnote: See The Master, A. E. Cheney. Or, more often, his moment of sudden insight seems a lightning flash upon the dark ways in which he is ordinarily groping. Keats says that his early visions were seen as through a rift of sheet lightning. Footnote: See The Epistle to George Keats ...
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Excerpt: ...See J. G. Percival, Genius Awaking, for the same figure. Again, the crash of the poet's inspiration upon his ordinary modes of thought is compared to "fearful claps of thunder," by Keats Footnote: See Sleep and Poetry. and others. Footnote: See The Master, A. E. Cheney. Or, more often, his moment of sudden insight seems a lightning flash upon the dark ways in which he is ordinarily groping. Keats says that his early visions were seen as through a rift of sheet lightning. Footnote: See The Epistle to George Keats. Emerson's impression is the same; visions come "as if life were a thunderstorm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand." Footnote: Essay on Inspiration. Likewise Alexander Smith declares, Across the midnight sea of mind A thought comes streaming like a blazing ship Upon a mighty wind, A terror and a glory! Shocked with light, His boundless being glares aghast. Footnote: A Life Drama. Perhaps this is a true expression of the poet's feelings during the deepest inspiration, yet we are minded of Elijah's experience with the wind and the fire and the still small voice. So we cannot help sympathizing with Browning's protest against "friend Naddo's" view that genius is a matter of bizarre and grandiose sensations. Footnote: Sordello. At least it is pleasant to find verse, by minor writers though it be, describing the quietude and naturalness of the poet's best moments. Thus Holmes tells us of his inspiration: Soft as the moonbeams when they sought Endymion's fragrant bower, She parts the whispering leaves of thought To show her full-leaved flower. Footnote: Invita Minerva. Edwin Markham says, She comes like the hush and beauty of the night. Footnote: Poetry. And Richard Watson Gilder's mood is the same: How to the singer comes his song? How to the summer fields Come flowers? How yields Darkness to happy dawn? How doth the night Bring stars? Footnote: How...
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All Editions of The Poet's Poet; Essays on the Character and Mission of the Poet as Interpreted in English Verse of the Last One Hundred and Fifty Years