"Dejection: An Ode" (1802), another meditative poem, which first took shape as a verse letter to Sara Hutchinson, Wordsworth's sister-in-law, memorably describes the suspension of his "shaping spirit of Imagination".
Whatever its form, it is distinguishable from the shaping spirit of imagination, which ordinarily embodies itself in children's games and rhymes, the fairy tale, the fantasy, animal stories such as Kipling's Jungle Books, nonsense, nonmoral poetry, humour, or the realistic novel conceived as art rather than admonition.
He added: "All forces in good shape and spirit".
If anyone was made to give Richard III a new shape and spirit – a riposte to Laurence Olivier – it is Rylance.
But there is unquestionably something distinctive about Icelandic music – in its structure and shape and spirit of experimentation.
It must hold fast to its commitment to upholding the democratic values that shape the spirit of this great country.
Today, one can recognize in "Mysteries" the shape and spirit of the modern novel, produced at a time when the modern novel did not yet exist.
His impact on the shape and spirit of the Weizmann Institute is immeasurable; among his most recent contributions were an Award for Innovative Investigation, an Institute for Stem Cell Research, and a Center for Nanoscale Science.
At the end of her book, one comes to feel that the fairy tale, like satire, is a genre with a certain shape and spirit that pops up all over the place, rather than a form with a single history.
All have helped to shape the spirit of Islamic literature in general, and it is often difficult to draw a line between such works of "scholarship" and works of "literature" in the narrower sense of that term.
