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  • A clique of limp, dim-witted noncomposmentis-poeticus insects invaded the sweet and sacred place.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • A clique of limp, dim-witted noncomposmentis-poeticus insects invaded the sweet and sacred place.

    Paid No Favours Ivan Donn Carswell 2007

  • Rengifo (1592) and Carvallo (1602) interpret ingenio as furor poeticus

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

  • At first, irrational traits attributed to genius are considered irrelevant; later they are magnified by the confluence into this idea of the Platonic doctrine of furor poeticus in poetics.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

  • Finck's “enthusiasm” shares with Plato's furor poeticus the element of emotional intensity with which poet or musician embraces his chosen art, but what separates the two concepts of Finck and Plato is the element of rationality.

    MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968

  • Genius (ingenium, genius) is something divine and innate, associated with enthusiasm (furor poeticus); it belongs to both arts and sciences.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

  • Furor poeticus in the Italian Renaissance, pp. 7f.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GIORGIO TONELLI 1968

  • In Petrarch, the idea of poetical ecstasy emerges again, and in the fifteenth century the direct contact with Plato makes the furor poeticus a popular idea, developed by Ficino and accepted by many poets and critics, e.g.,

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

  • But Scott had an appreciation of the _furor poeticus_ that made

    Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball

  • I looked about for varieties, but failed to detect any special character by which it could be referred to any of the varietal names given in catalogues, and concluded that it was N. poeticus pure and simple.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 Various

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