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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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... yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a huinan interest 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 .
... yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a huinan interest 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 .
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In this form the “ Lyrical Ballads ” were published ; and were presented by him , as an experiment , whether subjects , which from their nature rejected the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be ...
In this form the “ Lyrical Ballads ” were published ; and were presented by him , as an experiment , whether subjects , which from their nature rejected the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be ...
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My own conclusions on the 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 ...
My own conclusions on the 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 ...
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... and feeling profound or vehement ; and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial , still subordinates art to nature ; the manner to the matter ; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry .
... and feeling profound or vehement ; and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial , still subordinates art to nature ; the manner to the matter ; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry .
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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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