Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2Fenner, 1817 - 309 pages |
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... poetry with scholia . DURING the first year that Mr. Words- worth 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 ...
... poetry with scholia . DURING the first year that Mr. Words- worth 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 ...
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... poetic faith . Mr. Words- " worth , on the other hand , was to propose to him- self as his object , to give the charm of novelty to things of every day , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's ...
... poetic faith . Mr. Words- " worth , on the other hand , was to propose to him- self as his object , to give the charm of novelty to things of every day , and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural , by awakening the mind's ...
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... poetry to impart . To the second edition he added a preface of considerable length ; in which notwithstanding some passages of ap- parently a contrary import , he was understood to contend for the extension of this style to poetry of ...
... poetry to impart . To the second edition he added a preface of considerable length ; in which notwithstanding some passages of ap- parently a contrary import , he was understood to contend for the extension of this style to poetry of ...
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... poetic creed . All all , events , considering it as the source of a controversy , in which I have been honored more , than ... POETRY itself , in kind , and in essence . A a 3 1 The office of philosophical disquisition con- sists in just ...
... poetic creed . All all , events , considering it as the source of a controversy , in which I have been honored more , than ... POETRY itself , in kind , and in essence . A a 3 1 The office of philosophical disquisition con- sists in just ...
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... poetry . The writings of PLATO , and Bishop TAYLOR , and the Theoria Sacra of BURNET , furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre , and even without the contra- distinguishing objects of a poem ...
... poetry . The writings of PLATO , and Bishop TAYLOR , and the Theoria Sacra of BURNET , furnish undeniable proofs that poetry of the highest kind may exist without metre , and even without the contra- distinguishing objects of a poem ...
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