...heard, poetry is overheard. Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet's utter unconsciousness of a listener....confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude.... Eloquence is feeling pouring itself out to other minds" (1256). Mill thinks in terms of position, defines...

...is overheard," Mill writes, "Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet's utter unconsciousness of a listener....feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude."24 In order to overhear such a radically internalized solitude, the reader is supposed to...

..."Eloquence is heard, poetry overheard. Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to lie in the poet's utter unconsciousness of a listener....confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude." Mill captures something of the aura of lyric, the lucid, indrawn security that results from its apparent...

...heard, poetry is oferheard. Eloquence supposes an audience; the peculiarity of poetry appears to us to lie in the poet's utter unconsciousness of a listener....confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude. . . . Eloquence is feeling pouring itself out to other minds, courting their sympathy, or endeavouring...

...for the sake of better expressing one's feelings to oneself. As one part of Mill's definition runs: "Poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself, in moments of solitude, and embodying itself in symbols which are the nearest possible representations of the feeling in the exact...