...artificial shape, also offers transcendence: 'Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The...What am I? Nothing; but not so art thou, Soul of my thought!16 But Childe Harold later resumes this language of inward intensity to concede that 'our outward...

...own imaginative grasp of experience: 'Tis to create, and in creating, live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now. (CHP, 1n.6.1-4) The gods summoned by this 'being more intense' turn out Lucretian, however, not Christian,...

...though old, in the soul's haunted cell. 'Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we imagine, even as I do now. What am I? Nothing; but not so art thou, 50 Soul of my thought! with whom...

...creative mind of the dramatized poet: 'Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The...feeling still with thee in my crush'd feelings' dearth. (CHP3.6) Here the dramatized poet describes the process of poetic creation. The life he images or projects...

...Byron of Childe Harold III, stanza 6: Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image . . . The power of Properzia's fantasy lies partly in the strange fusion of arts that we perceive in...

...ordinary life in acts of imagination: "'Tis to create, and in creating live / A being more intense, that we endow / With form our fancy, gaining as we give / The life we imagine, even as I do now" (Childe Harold III, 43, 46-49; my emphasis). To write, for Byron, is not...