The Poetry of Real Life A New Edition, Much Enlarged and Improved. By Henry Ellison |
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REASON IMAGINATIVE AND
UNIMAGINATIVE. |
The Poetry of Real Life | ||
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REASON IMAGINATIVE AND UNIMAGINATIVE.
The poet and philosopher pursueOne Truth, but in a different way—the one,
By slow induction and comparison
Of facts, doth work it out in order due,
Link upon link, where if one fails all do—
The other, by an intuitión,
And an unerring instinct, lights upon
The Truth, and, feeling it as Beauty too,
Gives it a twofold worth—exuberant
His thoughts play out their surplusage in scent
And flower, with that feeling consonant,
Of Truth and Beauty knit, with one consent,
In bonds of holy wedlock, to enchant
Man more: and for more full accomplishment!
The Poetry of Real Life | ||