Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... nature , and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination . The sudden charm , which accidents of light and shade , which moon - light or sun - set diffused over a known and familiar landscape ...
... nature , and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination . The sudden charm , which accidents of light and shade , which moon - light or sun - set diffused over a known and familiar landscape ...
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... nature a human in- terest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment , which constitutes poetic faith . Mr. Words- " worth , on the other hand ...
... nature a human in- terest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment , which constitutes poetic faith . Mr. Words- " worth , on the other hand ...
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... nature rejected the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be so managed in the language of ordinary life as to produce the pleasureable interest , which it is the peculiar business of poetry to ...
... nature rejected the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be so managed in the language of ordinary life as to produce the pleasureable interest , which it is the peculiar business of poetry to ...
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... nature of poetry , in the strictest use of the word , have been in part anticipated in the preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a poet ? that the answer to ...
... nature of poetry , in the strictest use of the word , have been in part anticipated in the preceding disquisition on the fancy and imagination . What is poetry ? is so nearly the same question with , what is a poet ? that the answer to ...
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... natural and the ar- tificial , still subordinates art to nature ; the manner to the matter ; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry . Doubtless , " as Sir John Davies observes of the soul ( and his words may with ...
... natural and the ar- tificial , still subordinates art to nature ; the manner to the matter ; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry . Doubtless , " as Sir John Davies observes of the soul ( and his words may with ...
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