> Shelley is the poet for a revolutionary age. He is the poet of hope, as Wordsworth is the poet of wisdom. He has been charged with being intangible and unearthly, but he is so only in the sense in which the future is intangible and unearthly. He is no more unearthly than the skylark or the rainbow or the dawn.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13764
#Shelly #RobertLynd #FreedomLearning #poetry

> I neglect God and His angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. I talk on in the same posture of praying, eyes lifted up, knees bowed down, as though I prayed... a noise in mine ear, a light in mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain troubles me in my prayer." From The Art of Letters, too
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8077
#JamesHarveyRobinson #RobertLynd #JohnDonne #distraction #prayer #TowardLiberalEducation #FreedomLearning

> ... to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind’s attention from the lethargy of custom and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13764/13764-h/13764-h.htm#Shelley0
#coleridge on #Wordsworth #gutenberg #RobertLynd #literarycriticism

Belief in the possibility of a short decisive #war appears to be one of the most ancient & dangerous human illusions
#RobertLynd