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With many parts of this preface in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorise , I never concurred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in ...
With many parts of this preface in the sense attributed to them and which the words undoubtedly seem to authorise , I never concurred ; but on the contrary objected to them as erroneous in principle , and as contradictory ( in ...
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“ The man that hath not music in his soul ” can indeed never be a genuine poet . Imagery ( even taken from nature , much more when transplanted from books , as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) affecting incidents ...
“ The man that hath not music in his soul ” can indeed never be a genuine poet . Imagery ( even taken from nature , much more when transplanted from books , as travels , voyages , and works of natural history ) affecting incidents ...
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... and this together with the power of reducing multitude into unity of effect , and modifying a series of thoughts by some one predominant thought or feeling , may be cultivated and improved , but can never be learnt .
... and this together with the power of reducing multitude into unity of effect , and modifying a series of thoughts by some one predominant thought or feeling , may be cultivated and improved , but can never be learnt .
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I think , I should have conjectured from these poems , that even then the great instinct , which impelled the poet to the drama , was secretly working in hiin , prompting him by a series and never broken chain of imagery , always vivid ...
I think , I should have conjectured from these poems , that even then the great instinct , which impelled the poet to the drama , was secretly working in hiin , prompting him by a series and never broken chain of imagery , always vivid ...
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feelings , from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst ; that though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account .
feelings , from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst ; that though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind , yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account .
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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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