...conversation with Mr. Wordsworth. Upon ibis occasion, it way be useful to 1S2.-5.J 333 is m>\. fikiisur,-, but power. All,' that Is literature, seeks to communicate...man would designate the case in which I should be ni.nU- to feel vividly, and with a vital consciousness, emotions which ordinary life rarely or never...

...expression for literature (ie Literae Humaniores, and antiliterature, ie Liter* didacticas — Raideia). All that is literature, seeks to communicate power;...all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge — such is a brief statement of the views which the English OpinmEater illustrates with equal force...

...not literature, seeks to communicate knowledge. I will here borrow an illustration from Do Quincy : "Now if it be asked, what is meant by communicating power? I would ask by what name a man might designate the case, when he should be made vividly to fcel, and...

...not literature, seeks to communicate knowledge. I will here borrow an illustration from De Quincy: "Now if it be asked, what is meant by communicating power? I would ask by what name a man might designate the case, when he should be made vividly to feel, and...

...of one of his little cells, he is under a necessity of hopping into the other. The true antithesis7 to knowledge in this case is not pleasure, but power....ask by what name a man would designate the case in whi«h I should be made to feel vividly, and with a vital consciousness, emotions which ordinary life...

...distinction, as for most of the sound criticism on poetry, or any subject conuected with it, that I have ever case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature...communicating power, I, in my turn, would ask by what name a mail would designate the case in which I should be made to feel vividly, and with a vital consciousness,...

...Letters to a Young Man whose Education was neglected," (in the London Magazine, Taylor & Co. 1823,) seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge. When Cecil. Self, Sympathy, and Action. Goethe. HHJ Power and Knowledge. the inert and sleeping forms,...

...of one of his little cells, he is under a necessity of hopping into the other. The true antithesis7 to knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power....it be asked what is meant by communicating power, 1, in my turn, would ask by what name a man would designate the case in which I should be made to feel...

...classification which he offered for all written productions whatsoever. A well-known passage in his works reads: "All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge".4 This general thought is contained also in a passage possibly less familiar, where we find...

...of Whatisit? the word, literature is the direct and adequate antithesis of books of knowledge. . . . All that is literature seeks to communicate power...that is not literature, to communicate knowledge." — De Quincey. The Path to " Certainly I have always Enlightenment, contended that obedience to an...