 | Germaine Marie Merlette - 1904 - 402 pages
...devisant, tandis qu'on entend sonner le glas funèbre pour 1. Voir Coleridge, Biographia Lileraria... • that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith •. 2. Tullo Massarani, EB Browning, La Donna e la Poelcssa. • La tegenda del rosario nero un poco... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1904 - 878 pages
...utterances may have dramatic plausibility enough to procure for them, in the words of Coleridge, ' that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.' The wide prevalence of the Monistic theory of the Universe forbade, in this twentieth century, the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1904 - 870 pages
...utterances may have dramatic plausibility enough to procure for them, in the words of Coleridge, ' that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.' The wide prevalence of the Monistic theory of the Universe forbade, in this twentieth century, the... | |
 | Barrett Wendell, Chester Noyes Greenough - American literature - 1904 - 478 pages
...Poe's individual and powerful style, to be sure, full of what seems like vividness, constantly produces "that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith;" but the futile attempts to illustrate his work prove that fictions even so vivid as Usher and the Lady... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1904 - 442 pages
...their utterances may have dramatic plausibility enough to procure for them, in the words of Coleridge, "that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith." The wide acceptance of the Monistic theory of the Universe forbade, in this twentieth century, the... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1905 - 726 pages
...directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of...disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. . . . With this view I wrote Tht Ancient Mariner." Of The Ancient Mariner Wordsworth has said : " In... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1906 - 416 pages
...directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. . . . With this view I wrote 'The Ancient Mariner.' " Wordsworth told Rev. Alex : Dyce that " 'The... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of...sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that 294 willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 348 pages
...directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of...sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willingsuspension 5 of Disbelief fqr_the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth, on... | |
 | Louise McConnell - 2000 - 344 pages
...phrase coined by the English poet and literary critic, Samuel Coleridge (I772-I834), who wrote of: 'That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith'. He was describing our imaginative acceptance of a fiction or a drama, which we know is not actually... | |
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Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for... 
