“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”
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2000s, Before In History (2004)
Inside Information p. 7
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (1966)
Letter to James Hessey (October 9, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
Context: I have written independently without Judgment. I may write independently, and with Judgment, hereafter. The Genius of Poetry must work out its own salvation in a man: It cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself — That which is creative must create itself — In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a, silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 128 (1810)
The Bramley Moore [1964] P 200 at 220, commenting on the limitation of liability in maritime claims.
Judgments
The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate (1799)
“Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins, its transmission was oral.”
An Introduction to English Poetry, Viking Penguin, London 2002 ISBN 0141004398
“Other things being equal, the law seems to be directly reversed.”
September 1874, Popular Science Monthly Vol. 5, Article: The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction , p. 608
The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction (1874)
