 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, and the power of...  The Ancient Mariner: And Select Poems - Page xxxiby Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1908 - 82 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Saintsbury - Criticism - 1904 - 688 pages
...poetry, the jpower of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth _f. of giving the interest, of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. And he illustrates this finely, by instancing 1 In practice, though not always in - I have, since this... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the...accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset, diffuse over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1905 - 726 pages
...cardinal points of poetry: the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset... | |
 | William Wordsworth - England - 1906 - 260 pages
...cardinal points of poetry — ' the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the...appeared to represent the practicability of combining worth. These are the poetry of nature 'V Place by the side of this the chief claim which Wordsworth... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...cardinal points of poetry — the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. . . . The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1906 - 416 pages
...cardinal points of poetry : the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. . . . The thought suggested itself (to which of us, I do not recollect) that... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 344 pages
...adherence to the truth of nature, 5 and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents...represent the practicability of combining both. These are 10 the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 348 pages
...of novelty by the jnodiifying colors of imagination! The sudden charm, which accidents ol Jight~and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a...represent the practicability of combining both. These are 10 the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 388 pages
...the exercise of one and the same faculty. This faculty, whose ' modifying colours ' they compared to 'the sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade,...sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape ', is none other than the imagination.2 The question here naturally suggests itself, to what extent... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 388 pages
...the exercise of one and the same faculty. This faculty, whose ' modifying colours ' they compared to 'the sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade,...sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape ', is none other than ' the imagination.* The question here naturally suggests itself, to what extent... | |
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