Renaissance Confusion Leading on to Shelley
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/StudentProjects/Laset/DefenNotes.htm
Though poetry is not divine, some minds,
Awakening centuries’ minds, turn Plato’s views
To make that claim. A lonely scholar winds
The esthetician’s thoughts from scattered clues
In scattered, gathered documents. He sends
Conjectures to another scholar here
And there in distant cells. Their thinking blends
The fragments all together till a sphere
Of god-like stuff that Plato never meant
Results. “Pathetic” comes to mind. These sad
And solitary geniuses all spent
Intelligence for something quite, quite mad.
..An inspiration may indeed induce
Pure poetry, but it will not be Zeus.