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" I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation... "
Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 443
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 804 pages
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The Classical Tradition in Poetry

Gilbert Murray - Comparative literature - 1927 - 296 pages
...on the whole he recognizes that the tradition of poetry is against him. The experiment consists in "fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." The phrase occurs repeatedly: " to imitate and, as far as possible, adopt the very language of men."...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 45

1880 - 886 pages
...In the preface to the second edition he has modified this language, and says of the former volume, " It was published as an experiment, which I hoped might...metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of man in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 45

American essays - 1880 - 958 pages
...In the preface to the second edition he has modified this language, and says of the former volume, " It was published as an experiment, which I hoped might...fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the reed language of man in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life ..., Part 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...of poetic pleasure." W Prose i 116. 4 The actual phrasing of WW was more qualified than C implies: "a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation . . . The language too of these men [in rural life] is adopted (purified indeed from what appear to...
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Poetic Form and British Romanticism

Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 pages
...singers. The quality of the piece to the side, it is — to recall the language of the 1800 Preface — "a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation," and it certainly serves to illustrate "the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement"...
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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter

Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 356 pages
...considered as experiments" (SPP, 44 5). And in his preface to the second edition, he says of the collection: It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped,...language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort 252 of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour...
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Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter

Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - Poetry - 1990 - 366 pages
...considered as experiments" (SPP, 443). And in his preface to the second edition, he says of the collection: It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how tar, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid...
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Masken der Moderne: literarische Selbststilisierung bei T.S. Eliot, Ezra ...

Christoph Irmscher - American poetry - 1992 - 414 pages
...handele es sich um eine chemische Substanz, deren Art und Dosierung der Autor genau zu kalkulieren habe: "an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far ... that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a poet may rationally...
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The Modern Movement: A TLS Companion

John Gross - Literary Collections - 1992 - 340 pages
...syntax and grammar and shape the language anarchically". In fact, like Wordsworth he makes his own "selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation", even though in low-lying Alexandria these townsmen are not elevated by "the mountain's outline and...
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The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics

Martha Woodmansee - Art - 1994 - 224 pages
...Preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads that his object in the volume had been to fit "to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation" (pp. 15-16). 5. Given as the Karl Reinhard edition in 2 vols. (Gottingen, 1796) in The Letters of William...
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