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From this preface , prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius , however mistaken its direction might be deemed , arose the whole long continued controversy . For from the conjunction of ...
From this preface , prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius , however mistaken its direction might be deemed , arose the whole long continued controversy . For from the conjunction of ...
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From these I abstracted the following marks , as characteristics of original poetic genius in general . 1. In the “ Venus and Adonis , ” the first and most obvious excellence is the perfect sweetness of the versification ...
From these I abstracted the following marks , as characteristics of original poetic genius in general . 1. In the “ Venus and Adonis , ” the first and most obvious excellence is the perfect sweetness of the versification ...
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... though faithfully copied from nature , and as accurately represented in words , do not of themselves characterize the poet . They become proofs of original genius only Bb a as far as they are modified by a predominant 17.
... though faithfully copied from nature , and as accurately represented in words , do not of themselves characterize the poet . They become proofs of original genius only Bb a as far as they are modified by a predominant 17.
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... and the dramatic propriety of those figures and metaphors in the original poets , which stript of their justifying reasons , and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the ...
... and the dramatic propriety of those figures and metaphors in the original poets , which stript of their justifying reasons , and converted into mere artifices of connection or ornament , constitute the characteristic falsity in the ...
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Education , or original sensibility , or both , must pre - exist , if the changes , forms , and incidents of nature are to prove a sufficient stimulant . And where these are not sufficient , the mind contracts and hardens by want of ...
Education , or original sensibility , or both , must pre - exist , if the changes , forms , and incidents of nature are to prove a sufficient stimulant . And where these are not sufficient , the mind contracts and hardens by want of ...
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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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