Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 |
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... poetic power , as distinguished from general talent determined to poetic composition by accidental motives , by an act of the will , rather than by the inspi- ration of a genial and productive nature . In this investigation , I could ...
... poetic power , as distinguished from general talent determined to poetic composition by accidental motives , by an act of the will , rather than by the inspi- ration of a genial and productive nature . In this investigation , I could ...
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... poetic genius in general . 1. In the " Venus and Adonis , " the first and most obvious excellence is the perfect ... poetic reputa- tion for a natural poetic genius ; the love of the arbitary end for a possession of the peculiar means ...
... poetic genius in general . 1. In the " Venus and Adonis , " the first and most obvious excellence is the perfect ... poetic reputa- tion for a natural poetic genius ; the love of the arbitary end for a possession of the peculiar means ...
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... poetic power . We may perhaps remember the tale of the statuary , who had acquired considerable reputation for the legs of his goddesses , though the rest of the statue accorded but indifferently with ideal beauty ; till his wife elated ...
... poetic power . We may perhaps remember the tale of the statuary , who had acquired considerable reputation for the legs of his goddesses , though the rest of the statue accorded but indifferently with ideal beauty ; till his wife elated ...
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... poet to the drama , was secretly working in him , prompting him by a series and never broken chain of imagery , always vivid and because un- broken , often minute ; by the highest effort of the picturesque in words , of which words are ...
... poet to the drama , was secretly working in him , prompting him by a series and never broken chain of imagery , always vivid and because un- broken , often minute ; by the highest effort of the picturesque in words , of which words are ...
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... poet's ever active mind has dedu- ced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . 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 ...
... poet's ever active mind has dedu- ced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . 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 ...
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