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DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth 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 adherence to the truth of nature ...
DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth 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 adherence to the truth of nature ...
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Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has , I find , degraded this prefatory disquisition to the end of his second volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in ...
Mr. Wordsworth in his recent collection has , I find , degraded this prefatory disquisition to the end of his second volume , to be read or not at the reader's choice . But he has not , as far as I can discover , announced any change in ...
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The reader should be carried forward , not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity , or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution i but by the pleasureable activity of mind excited by the attractions of ...
The reader should be carried forward , not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity , or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution i but by the pleasureable activity of mind excited by the attractions of ...
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... representation of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told nothing , but to see and hear every thing . Hence it is , that from the perpetual activity of attention required on the part of the reader ; from ...
... representation of those characters by the most consummate actors . You seem to be told nothing , but to see and hear every thing . Hence it is , that from the perpetual activity of attention required on the part of the reader ; from ...
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The reader is forced into too much action to sympathize with the merely passive of our nature . As little can a mind thus roused and awakened be brooded on by mean and indistinct emotion , as the low , lazy mist can creep upon the ...
The reader is forced into too much action to sympathize with the merely passive of our nature . As little can a mind thus roused and awakened be brooded on by mean and indistinct emotion , as the low , lazy mist can creep upon 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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