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Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads , and the objects originally proposed— Preface to the second edition — The ensuing controversy , its causes and acrimony — Philosophic definitions of poem and poetry with scholia .
Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads , and the objects originally proposed— Preface to the second edition — The ensuing controversy , its causes and acrimony — Philosophic definitions of poem and poetry with scholia .
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With this view I wrote the “ Ancient Mariner , " and was preparing among other poems , the “ Dark Ladie , ” and the “ Christobel , " in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal , than I had done in my first attempt .
With this view I wrote the “ Ancient Mariner , " and was preparing among other poems , the “ Dark Ladie , ” and the “ Christobel , " in which I should have more nearly realized my ideal , than I had done in my first attempt .
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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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But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in his poetic creed . ... in as few words as possible , explain my ideas , first , of a POEM ; and secondly , of POETRY itself , in kind , [ and in essence .
But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in his poetic creed . ... in as few words as possible , explain my ideas , first , of a POEM ; and secondly , of POETRY itself , in kind , [ and in essence .
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A poem contains the same elements as a prose composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a different combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the ...
A poem contains the same elements as a prose composition ; the difference therefore must consist in a different combination of them , in consequence of a different object proposed . According to the difference of the object will be the ...
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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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