...idealism by the regulative ethics of understanding and memory, Shelley presents a straightforward defense: "the great instrument of moral good is the imagination; and poetry administers to the effect by acting on the cause." Relocating enlightenment ethics in the matrix of the "creative faculty," Shelley construes...

...society. According to the poet Shelley, for example, '[a] man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.'21 These remarks do not just affirm poetry; they indict 'objective' science. Science,...

...morals is love; or a going out of our own nature. ... A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...pleasures of his species must become his own." The ethics of poetry, Shelley claims, consists in its way of compelling readers to identify with others,...

...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...and pleasures of his species must become his own. We must also bring sympathy to the way we read poetry. I would recommend that when you read these poems...

...this issue in language that (apparently) codifies the claims of the Preface to Prometheus Unbound: The great instrument of moral good is the imagination;...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause. ... A poet therefore would do ill to embody his conceptions of right and wrong, which are usually those...

...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...Poetry enlarges the circumference of the imagination . . ." (48788). In surrendering to inspiration, the poet thus relinquishes his or her individual vices...

...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...administers to the effect by acting upon the cause." 6. Cesare Zavattini, sequences from a cinematic life, trans. William Weaver (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:...

...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...great instrument of moral good is the imagination; Source: 77ie Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, newly edited by Roger Ingpen and Walter E. Peck,...

...exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...and pleasures of his species must become his own. Shelley, 'A Defence of Poetry' A friend of mine had a profound experience of the interconnectedness...

...nourish the power to imagine the world and others. "A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place...another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of the species must become his own." Poetry "enlarges the circumference of the imagination," 67 which...