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7 ܪ venile poems , I saw and admitted the superiority of an austerer , and more natural style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present possess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ...
7 ܪ venile poems , I saw and admitted the superiority of an austerer , and more natural style , with an insight not less clear , than I at present possess . My judgment was stronger , than were my powers of realizing its dictates ...
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But the writings of a contemporary , perhaps not many years elder than himself , surrounded by the same circumstances , and disciplined by the same manners , possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a ...
But the writings of a contemporary , perhaps not many years elder than himself , surrounded by the same circumstances , and disciplined by the same manners , possess a reality for him , and inspire an actual friendship as of a man for a ...
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... comprize the conditions and criteria of poetic style ; first , that not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure , possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry .
... comprize the conditions and criteria of poetic style ; first , that not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure , possesses the genuine power , and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat ...
Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in their own nature , like damp hay , they heat ...
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... and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and selfsufficing power of absolute Genius .
... and most restless in those , who possess more than mere talent ( or the faculty of appropriating and applying the knowledge of others ) yet still want something of the creative , and selfsufficing power of absolute Genius .
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| Title | Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Volume 1 of Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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