THE SUPERNATURAL ELEMENT IN POETRY

Der Aberglaube ist die Poesie des Lebens, said Goethe; and the Englishman first feels how foreign to the mind of the German must be the idea conveyed by the only fluid and poetical translation of the words that is possible in our language. The term superstition is no longer used to imply that specie...

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Published in:The New monthly, Jan.-Oct. 1882 Jan.-Oct. 1882, 1879-07, Vol.116, p.829-844
Main Author: CAINE, T H HALL
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Language:English
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Summary:Der Aberglaube ist die Poesie des Lebens, said Goethe; and the Englishman first feels how foreign to the mind of the German must be the idea conveyed by the only fluid and poetical translation of the words that is possible in our language. The term superstition is no longer used to imply that species of extra-belief which arises from the exercise of faculties outside the world of sense; which springs from conceptions generated without aid from the forms of intellect, and which responds to the organs of another more beautiful world that it alone is fitted to apprehend.
ISSN:2043-5193