visionariness

We still don't know the decisive elements that went into that change from an older style of symbolism and writing poetry to the new style — the new style being a new type of visionariness but also a certain intermingling of prosaicness or a diminished fear of the difference between prose and poetry.

An Interview with Harold Bloom 2006

But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles Dante.

English literary criticism Various

Agnes Font cannot share his visionariness, as her other lover, Commander Lyle, plainly sees.

Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt 1914

It had neither the continuousness nor the range of Browning's many-sided conversation, nor did it possess the charm of the ethereal visionariness of Newman's.

Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912

Mr. ----, the head of the Kumamoto Boys 'School during the period of its fierce struggles and final collapse, whom I have already referred to as the Hero-Principal, [AS] is another example of this impractical high-strung visionariness.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

More than any other of her mental characteristics, impractical visionariness may be traced to the development of the nervous organization at the expense of the muscular.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

It is not difficult to account for the presence of accentuated visionariness in Japan.

Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902

We have seen how in the Italian Renaissance the fetters of dogma, tradition, and mediæval custom were removed, and servility and visionariness gave place to healthy individuality and realism; how man and the world were discovered anew; and further, how among the other Romanic nations a lively feeling for Nature grew up, partly idyllic, partly mystic; and finally, how this feeling found dramatic expression in Shakespeare.

The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Alfred Biese 1893

Spenserian _visionariness_ of parts -- to the gracious lulling atmosphere of the whole.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles

The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866