...taste for the bright one; because they both end in speculation. A Poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence; because he has no Identity —he is...continually in for —and filling some other Body." 21 To surrender to the other is thus to lose one's identity, making the poet a momentary receptacle...

..."wordsworthian or egotistical sublime." The point, Keats declares, is that the true or genuine poet "has no Identity — he is continually in for — and filling some other Body." I understand Keats as proposing a kind of ec-stasy, with the poet capable of stepping outside himself...

...other Romantics, he did not insist on defining his masculine identity. He declares instead that a poet "has no Identity; he is continually in for and filling some other Body."282 This meets with the psychoanalytic view of "the self as unbounded, fluid, decentered, inconsistent",...

...— it is every thing and nothing— It has no character A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity — he is continually in for — and filling some other Body.'4 And recent studies have convincingly argued that in many respects Eliot's criticism is continuous...

...for the bright one; because they both end in speculation. A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity — he is...The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute — the poet has none;...

...as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen . . . A poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence, because he has no Identity - he is continually...Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute; the poet has none...

...unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity — he is continually in for[ming] — and filling some other Body — The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute — the poet has none;...

...other Body";12 the otherness of "poetical" objects stand in for its contemplative identity, such as "[t]he Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse" because they "have about them an unchangeable attribute" (KL 157). The "poetical"...