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" ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities : of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness,... "
Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 14
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 804 pages
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Principles of Literary Criticism

Ivor Armstrong Richards - Criticism - 1926 - 324 pages
...poet who "described ;n ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity. . . ." His is "a more than usual state of emotion, with more than...self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement V As so often, Coleridge drops the invaluable hint almost inadvertently. The wholeness of the mind...
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The Monthly Criterion, Volume 5

Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1927 - 408 pages
...idea with the image; the individual with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion with more than usual orderj judgment ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...
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English Prose Style

Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 262 pages
...this power of Imagination reveals itself, among other ways, in the balance and reconciliation of ' a more than usual state of emotion with more than...self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement '. The predominance which is given on the one hand to order or judgment and on the other hand to emotion...
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The Poem Itself: 150 of the Finest Modern Poets in the Original Languages

Stanley Burnshaw - Poetry - 2015 - 390 pages
...definition of poetry as "the best words in the best order," especially into his famous remark about "a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order." Today we talk of the "affective" phrase or sentence, whose word arrangement differs from that of prose...
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Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers

Fredric Lown, Judith W. Steinbergh - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 194 pages
...idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state...and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and artificial, still subordinates art to nature; the manner to the matter; and our admiration of the poet...
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George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity: Art, Philosophy, Politics ...

Arthur Davis - Philosophy - 1996 - 374 pages
...idea with the image; the individual with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion with a more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm profound or...
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The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

T. S. Eliot - Literary Collections - 1997 - 146 pages
...individual with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar ohjects; a more than usual state of emotion with more than...with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement. . . . Coleridge's statement applies also to the following verses, which are selected hecause of their...
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Anatomy of what We Value Most

William Gerber - Epistemology & Metaphysics - 1997 - 252 pages
...idea with the image; the individual with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion with more than usual order. Another summation of such reconciliations was offered by JWR Purser, whom we quoted earlier on the...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state...with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement." Readers baffled by a poem that seems both mechanically measured and rapturously emotional can relax:...
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Unity in Diversity Revisited?: British Literature and Culture in the 1990s

Barbara Korte, Klaus Peter Müller - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 280 pages
...idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order; judgement ever awake and steady self-possession, with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement;...
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