Biographia Literaria, Том 2Clarendon Press, 1907 - 334 страници These two volumes are a reprint of the edition of 1817 with additional material to clarify the text. It includes Coleridge's aesthetical writings; notes on the text; and an introductory essay about his theory of imagination. |
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... taste there is a de- light in perfection for its own sake , independent of the material in which it is manifested , that none but a cultivated taste can understand or appreciate . After what I have advanced , it would appear presumption ...
... taste there is a de- light in perfection for its own sake , independent of the material in which it is manifested , that none but a cultivated taste can understand or appreciate . After what I have advanced , it would appear presumption ...
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... taste must be acquired , and like all other good things , is the result of thought , and the submissive study of the best models . If it be asked , " But what shall I deem such ? " the answer is ; presume those to be the best , the ...
... taste must be acquired , and like all other good things , is the result of thought , and the submissive study of the best models . If it be asked , " But what shall I deem such ? " the answer is ; presume those to be the best , the ...
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... taste will not so far sympathize with them , as to read with pleasure in PETRARCH , 5 CHAUCER , or SPENSER , what he would perhaps condemn as puerile in a modern poet ? I remember no poet , whose writings would safelier stand the test ...
... taste will not so far sympathize with them , as to read with pleasure in PETRARCH , 5 CHAUCER , or SPENSER , what he would perhaps condemn as puerile in a modern poet ? I remember no poet , whose writings would safelier stand the test ...
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... TASTE . By what rule that does not leave the reader at the poet's mercy , and the poet at his own , is the latter to distinguish between the language suitable to sup- 10 pressed , and the language , which is characteristic of indulged ...
... TASTE . By what rule that does not leave the reader at the poet's mercy , and the poet at his own , is the latter to distinguish between the language suitable to sup- 10 pressed , and the language , which is characteristic of indulged ...
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... taste is requisite to see clearly , that this compulsory juxta- position is not produced by the presentation of impressive or delightful forms to the inward vision , nor by any sympathy with the modifying powers with which the genius of ...
... taste is requisite to see clearly , that this compulsory juxta- position is not produced by the presentation of impressive or delightful forms to the inward vision , nor by any sympathy with the modifying powers with which the genius of ...
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Страница 289 - 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 these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Страница 43 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Страница 12 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Страница 35 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Страница 51 - By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Страница 74 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes. Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Страница 6 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Страница 12 - ... 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, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Страница 45 - It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.
Страница 118 - For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. " Thus fares it still in our decay : And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.