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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 a 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 a poem and poetry with scholia.
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Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
Had Mr. Wordsworth's poems been the silly, the childish things, wbich they were for a long time described as being ; had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language and inanity of ...
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Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads , and the objects originally proposed - Preface to the second edition — T'he ensuing controversy , its causes and acrimony - Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia .
Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads , and the objects originally proposed - Preface to the second edition — T'he ensuing controversy , its causes and acrimony - Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia .
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... the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be so managed in the language of ordinary life as to produce the pleasureable interest , which it is the peculiar business of poetry to impart .
... the usual ornaments and extra - colloquial style of poems in general , might not be so managed in the language of ordinary life as to produce the pleasureable interest , which it is the peculiar business of poetry to impart .
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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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| 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 | R. Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 13 Jan 2006 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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