...position goes beyond Voltaire's. Wordsworth's equally famous effusion can be interpreted similarly: "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all Science."29 This opinion of Wordsworth's was arrived at from the bleak view...

...— a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave. A Poet's Epitaph 118 Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. . .shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit...

...Argumentation und Wordsworth gleichsam weiterdenkend, sagen, ist das eigentliche Experiment, denn: Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science ... Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge. It is äs immortal äs the heart of man ... If the...

...interdisciplinary, leap to disclose the (concealed) analogies between Heideggerian metaphysics and Romantic poetics: "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science," Wordsworth proclaims in the "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," to continue by making the wish that science...

...presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science. The poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society as it spreads over...

...declares a faith to which all the other Romantic poets who followed him would also have subscribed: "Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science" (Prose 1:141). Science, then, was to be complemented by Poetry — especially perhaps in political...

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...beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. Emphatically may it be said of the Poet, as Shakespeare hath said of man, 'that he looks before and...

...Wordsworth also admired science: The knowledge both of the poet and the Man of Science is pleasure. . . . Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge;...expression which is in the countenance of all Science. (WW, p. 738) 70. NS, pp. 67-68. The still-unknown Emerson wrote the little-known Carlyle, on 2 November...

...has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone." Poetry by its very familiarity "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge:...impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.10 The tag from Horace, however, has served as motto for a whole tradition of comparative literary...