 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1876 - 832 sider
...analogous to love. In the Ion he further developes this position, and asserts that "all good poets compose their beautiful poems, not as works of art, but because they are inspired and possessed." The analogy which ho selects is drawn from the behaviour of Bacchantes under the influence of Dionysus.... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - 1874 - 446 sider
...from the original stone. Now this is like the Muse, who first gives to men inspiration herself; and from these inspired persons a chain of other persons...are inspired and possessed. And as the Corybantian revellers when they dance are not in their right mind, so the lyric poets are not in their right mind... | |
 | Plato - 1874 - 662 sider
...from the original stone. Now this is like the Muse, who lirst gives to men inspiration herself: and from these inspired persons a chain of other persons...inspiration from them. For all good poets, epic as wejljts lyric, compose their beautiful poems not as works of art, but'because they are inspired ajid... | |
 | sir John Pentland Mahaffy - 1875 - 472 sider
...from the original stone. Now this is like the Muse, who first gives to men inspiration herself ; and from these inspired persons a chain of other persons is suspended, who take the inspiration from them 1. For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not as works of art, but... | |
 | 1878 - 520 sider
...translation which in our day has made Plato an English classic, we have Socrates saying to Ion : — " All good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their...art, but because they are inspired and possessed. . . . For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he... | |
 | 1878 - 800 sider
...crushing force, his specific gravity being indefinitely increased by the dictum of Socrates to Ion — " All good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their...beautiful poems, not as works of art, but because they are possessed and inspired " — words which, if appreciated, ought at once to alter the conditions on... | |
 | 1878 - 794 sider
...crushing force, his specific gravity being indefinitely increased by the dictum of Socrates to Ion — " All good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their...beautiful poems, not as works of art, but because they are possessed and inspired " — words which, if appreciated, ought at once to alter the conditions on... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1879 - 428 sider
...analogous to love. In the Ion he further develops this position, and asserts that " all good poets compose their beautiful poems not as works of art, but because they are inspired and possessed." The analogy which he selects is drawn from the behaviour of Bacchantes under the influence of Dionysus.... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1884 - 704 sider
...Who is the Creator of the good-minded beings, thou Wise?"— [Vol. 1: pp. 123-4. XIII. : p. 80. — "All good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their...of art, but because they are inspired and possessed ; . . for they tell us that they gather then- strains from honied fountains, out of the gardens and... | |
 | 1891 - 604 sider
...done as Plato's man must write Poetry. According to Jowett's translation, Socrates says to Ion : " All good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their...art, but because they are inspired and possessed. * * * For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he... | |
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For all good poets, epic as well as lyric, compose their beautiful poems not by art, but because they are inspired and possessed. 
