Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... never concurred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in prin- ciple , and as contradictory ( in appearance at least ) both to other parts of the same preface , and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the ...
... never concurred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in prin- ciple , and as contradictory ( in appearance at least ) both to other parts of the same preface , and to the author's own practice in the greater number of the ...
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... never be a genuine poet . Imagery ( even taken from nature , much more when transplanted from books , as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) affect- ing incidents ; just thoughts ; interesting per- sonal or domestic ...
... never be a genuine poet . Imagery ( even taken from nature , much more when transplanted from books , as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) affect- ing incidents ; just thoughts ; interesting per- sonal or domestic ...
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... never be learnt . It is in these that " Poeta nascitur non fit . " 2. A second promise of genius is the choice of subjects very remote from the private inte- rests and circumstances of the writer himself . At least I have found , that ...
... never be learnt . It is in these that " Poeta nascitur non fit . " 2. A second promise of genius is the choice of subjects very remote from the private inte- rests and circumstances of the writer himself . At least I have found , that ...
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... never broken chain of imagery , always vivid and because un- broken , often minute ; by the highest effort of the picturesque in words , of which words are capable , higher perhaps than was ever realized by any other poet , even Dante ...
... never broken chain of imagery , always vivid and because un- broken , often minute ; by the highest effort of the picturesque in words , of which words are capable , higher perhaps than was ever realized by any other poet , even Dante ...
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... never was poem less dan- gerous on a moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of ...
... never was poem less dan- gerous on a moral account . Instead of doing as Ariosto , and as , still more offensively , Wieland has done , instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite , the trials of love into the struggles of ...
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