...(Reproduction from the author's collection.) LONE LANDSCAPES Dickinson, Ruskin, and Victorian Aesthetics Alt! then, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To express...and add the gleam, The light that never was, on sea or land, 7 he consecration, and the Poet's dream; I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile Amid a...

...are at once an instance and an illustration, he does indeed to all thoughts and to all objects — -add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream. 4 I shall select a few examples as most obviously manifesting this faculty; but if I should ever be...

...that it is a real and interpretative light which the poet throws over his themes when he adds — " The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream." The main difference between one poet and another will be found in the ability or inability to reach...

...away, or brings: I could have fancied that the mighty Deep Was even the gentlest of all gentle Things. Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...this! Beside a sea that could not cease to smile; 20 On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. Thou shouldst have seemed a treasure-house divine Of peaceful...

...piping a slender Irishism, remotely reminiscent of the posy, 'Beauty is truth, that is all you know.' The gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream, appear, after all, to him who has his eyes upon life, not to him who turns from it. Those who pursue...

...Castle', before be has nominally described it. 'If mine had been the Painter's hand...' the poet fancies, 'I would have planted thee, thou hoary Pile / Amid a world how different from this!' (Roe 1992: 244, 13, 17-18). The speaker 'half-creates' the 'rugged Pile' at least three separate times,...

...hand," Wordsworth had written in Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture ofPeele Castle in a Storm, To express what then I saw - and add the gleam, The...sea or land, The consecration and the poet's dream. (13-16) Considering how much Wordsworth Keats is quoting at this period, lines 30-2 of the verse-letter...

...being in things. Otherwise the poet will be led, as Wordsworth recalls was his early inclination, to "add the gleam,/ The light that never was, on sea or land,/ The consecration, and the Poet's dream." That, we shall contend, is the use Shelley would make of beauty, commanding beauty as a thing transcendent,...

...the following verses Wordsworth describes how, had he been Beaumont, he would have treated the motif: Ah! THEN, if mine had been the Painter's hand, To...to smile; On tranquil land, beneath a sky of bliss. A picture had it been of lasting ease Elysian quiet, without toil or strife; No motion but the moving...

...on to quote from Wordsworth's 'Elegiac Stanzas', 'at once an instance and an illustration', imply: 'add the gleam, / The light that never was on sea or land, / The consecration, and the ''1 Harold BliK1m, The Rtngers 1n the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition (Chicago. 1971), 18,19....