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... he was understood to contend for the extension of this style to poetry of all kinds , and to reject as vicious and indefensible all phrases and forms of style that A a 2 " were not included in what he ( unfortunately , I 3.
... he was understood to contend for the extension of this style to poetry of all kinds , and to reject as vicious and indefensible all phrases and forms of style that A a 2 " were not included in what he ( unfortunately , I 3.
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But in order to render myself intelligible I must previously , in as few words as possible , explain my ideas , first , of a POEM ; and secondly , of POETRY itself , in kind , [ and in essence . . Аа 3 The office of philosophical ...
But in order to render myself intelligible I must previously , in as few words as possible , explain my ideas , first , of a POEM ; and secondly , of POETRY itself , in kind , [ and in essence . . Аа 3 The office of philosophical ...
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Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though ...
Pleasure , and that of the highest and most permanent kind , may result from the attainment of the end ; but it is not itself the immediate end . In other works the communication of pleasure may be the immediate purpose ; and though ...
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The writings of Plato , and Bishop TAYLOR , and the Theoria Sacra of BURNET , furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem .
The writings of Plato , and Bishop TAYLOR , and the Theoria Sacra of BURNET , furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre , and even without the contradistinguishing objects of a poem .
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From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper ... Thus does she , when from individual states She doth abstract the universal kinds ; Which then re - clothed in ...
From their gross matter she abstracts their forms , And draws a kind of quintessence from things ; Which to her proper ... Thus does she , when from individual states She doth abstract the universal kinds ; Which then re - clothed in ...
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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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