 We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know ; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine ; we want the poetry of life : our calculations have outrun conception ; we have eaten more than we can digest.  The United States Democratic Review - Page 421848Full view - About this book
 | Robert F. Gleckner - 1975 - 356 pages
...the remedy is in the same terms : There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...what is wiser and better than what men now practise or endure. But . . . we want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous... | |
 | Langdon Winner - 1978 - 400 pages
...faculty can only spell disaster for a society driven by a new and highly productive rational knowledge. "We want the creative faculty to imagine that which...that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest" (ibid., p. 441). Shelley... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1980 - 176 pages
...of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let "I dare not wait upon / would, like the poor cat in the adage".i' We want the creative faculty... | |
 | William E. Cain - 1984 - 268 pages
...of inequality" rather than "lighten[ing] . . . the curse imposed on Adam" — Shelley suggests that "we want the creative faculty to imagine that which...the generous impulse to act that which we imagine." Although the "we" here is clearly elite, the imagination is nonetheless that principle of irreducible... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1987 - 310 pages
...of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let "/ dare not wait upon / would, like the poor cat \ the adage."" We want the creative faculty... | |
 | Reinhard Bendix - 386 pages
...sciences have also circumscrihed the empire of the internal world.12 Here is Shelley's own summation: We want the creative faculty to imagine that which...that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. . . . The cultivation... | |
 | F. M. L. Thompson - 1990 - 306 pages
...of facts and calculating processes. There is no want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political economy, or at...that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest.29 28 Margot Jefferys,... | |
 | G. A. Rosso, Daniel P. Watkins - 1990 - 308 pages
...refined, perhaps, than the memorable formulation of the Defence of Poetry, but essentially congruent. We want the creative faculty to imagine that which...that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest. The cultivation of... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - 1992 - 200 pages
...want of knowledge respecting what is wisest and best in morals, government, and political oeconomy, or at least, what is wiser and better than what men now practise and endure. But we let T dare not wait upon / would, like the poor cat i' the adage.' We want the creative faculty... | |
 | Malcolm Cowley - 1994 - 404 pages
...self-awareness of the proletariat. What Shelley said of his own age can be applied more truly to ours: "We want the creative faculty to imagine that which...that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest." Today we are entering... | |
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