Alfred Austin Quote

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.


Prose Papers on Poetry (1910)


Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.