...and the reflective poet. Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. - A...constantly amalgamating disparate experience ; the ordinary man',s experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and...

...constantly forming new wholes; recalls a striking statement in his essay, The Metaphysical Poets : "When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences ; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in...

...media — water and air. Mr. Burke undoubtedly is nearer than is Mr. Ransom to Mr. Eliot's statement: "When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its...constantly amalgamating disparate experience." The "disparate experience" is undoubtedly the domain of "the forsaken merman" for Mr. Burke. Few living...

...1931, the tercentenary year, he was clearly in the process of backing off. His initial fervor—"A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his...its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences"—had evaporated; now he was saying that in Donne, "learning is just information suffused...

...capacidad asociativa que logra ofrecer una visión múltiple dentro de la unidad. Así lo expresa Eliot: «When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its...disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience ir chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or read Spinoza, and these two experiences...

...his peculiar needs as a poet; and are recurringly occupied with 'the processes of the poet's mind' - 'When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work . . .'. It is in Hour Quartets, at certain points where, in a certain way, impersonality avowedly breaks down, that...

...again borrows a mechanical metaphor; but here the active presence of a shaping hand is unmistakable: "A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified...its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience."18 This "amalgamation" is, a few paragraphs later, elaborated into an act that involves...

...their multiplied associations, and their ability to compel a heterogeneity of material into unity. 'When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its...constantly amalgamating disparate experience ... The poets of the i7th century, the successors of the dramatists of the 17th, possessed a mechanism of sensibility...

...verse, since he praises Donne by saying that "a thought to Donne was an experience." He also asserts, "When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its...is constantly amalgamating disparate experience." He also calls sensibility "the feeling" in verse. Divertisement. Noun: amusement. Do, doe. Verb: (1)...