...1939), 196. (All references are to this edition. [Ed.] ) 13 "When composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conception of the Poet" - Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defense of Poetry" (1840). 14 See Daniel Ferrer,...

...new relations are ever developed, the source of an unforeseen and an unconceived delight. (291) [...] the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated...feeble shadow of the original conceptions of the poet. (294) Poetry [...] is äs it were the interpenetration of a diviner nature through our own; but its...

...but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry dial has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conception of the poet. (Pp. 503-4) As we have seen, Shelley, in revising the passage echoing Keats,...

...from that future out of which the poet as poet is born. It is literally his "original conception": "The most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conception of the poet" (504). The invocation of futurity, casting "shadows" behind it, appears at...

...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conception of the Poet. For the bulk of his essay, Shelley has sketched out his ouni cultural history...

...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results; but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conception of the Poet. (D, 135) Die Quelle der Inspiration ist nicht, wie in der biblischen und griechischen...

...Shelley's words, "...The mind in creation is a fading coal..., but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original visitations of thought and feeling... it is as it were the interpenetration of divine nature through...

...is impossible to predict the greatness of the results: but when composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry...world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conception of the poet" (504). Composition, then, reenacts the fall in the attempt to render pure and...

...creativity. These anecdotes conveyed an image of effortlessness, paralleling Shelley's insistence that 'it is an error to assert that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study'. 59 Just as Methodist mythology described the infant John Wesley being plucked like a flaming brand...

...creativity. These anecdotes conveyed an image of effortlessness, paralleling Shelley's insistence that 'it is an error to assert that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study'.19 Just as Methodist mythology described the infant John Wesley being plucked like a flaming...