 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 424 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...of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination/ ' In Coleridge's ' Literary Remains ' the ' Venus and Adonis ' is cited as furnishing a signal example... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colour of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of...the poetry of nature. The thought suggested itself that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, subjects were to be chosen from... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...converse on the two cardinal points of poetry. the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the...modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, he beautifully says, — " which accident of light an! shade, while moonlight or sunset diffused over... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...converse on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the...modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, he beautifully says, — " which accident of light and shade, while moonlight or sunset diffused over... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...converse on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the...modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, he beautifully says, — " which accident of light and shade, while moonlight or sunset diffused over... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...cardinal points of poetry, — the power of exciting the sympathy of a reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colour of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset... | |
 | 1856 - 368 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...the practicability of combining both. These are the poetiy of nature. The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - English essays - 1858 - 332 pages
...cardinal points of Poetry to be the power of exciting the reader's sympathy 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. As Poetry employs verbal signs to suggest to the' imagination noble grounds for noble... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 770 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 sndden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset... | |
 | Bath and West of England Society - 1859 - 470 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...which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sun^-i diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining... | |
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