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DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours , our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature ...
DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours , our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature ...
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But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter .
But Mr. Wordsworth's industry had proved so much more successful , and the number of his poems so much greater , that my compositions , instead of forming a balance , appeared rather an interpolation of heterogeneous matter .
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Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly , the childish things , which they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
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Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has , I find , degraded this prefatory disquisition to the end of his second volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in ...
Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has , I find , degraded this prefatory disquisition to the end of his second volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in ...
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... Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which Milton held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! ܪ WORDSWORTH . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets 22.
... Which SHAKSPEARE spake ; the faith and morals hold , Which Milton held . In every thing we are sprung Of earth's first blood , have titles manifold ! ܪ WORDSWORTH . CHAPTER XVI . Striking points of difference between the Poets 22.
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| Title | Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 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 | 309 pages |
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