As for "compensating visionary virtues" (those virtuous visionaries, always "compensating!"), enough said.
("I also thought of Wallace Stevens' distinction... .., "I thought of Keats writing..".) In the spirit of these harkenings, she seeks to lump Blake, Shelley and Yeats together as "enduring political poets" though she pauses to acknowledge, grandly, that these poets have "compensating visionary virtues".
("I also thought of Wallace Stevens' distinction... .., "I thought of Keats writing..".) In the spirit of these harkenings, she seeks to lump Blake, Shelley and Yeats together as "enduring political poets" though she pauses to acknowledge, grandly, that these poets have "compensating visionary virtues". Whew, thanks -- "Horseman, pass by"!
Compensating with accessories".
Her tenacious detective work into family history, her crisp and lively summation of the science, are virtues that compensate – just about – for a folksy, intrusive, condescending tone.
The resulting image "is of a woman of limited culture, blank, silent, who compensated with kindness and virtues of the heart the lack of physical attributes".
Thus she argues that, if you are hit on the head by a gold bar dropped from the sky, you have been harmed even if you have been more than compensated for that harm in virtue of the fact that you are now in possession of the gold bar (Shiffrin 1999, 120 135).
Her family was initially opposed to the match on financial grounds; Winthrop countered by appealing to piety as a virtue that more than compensated for his modest income.
