 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...  Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, and Christabel - Page xviiiby Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1902 - 109 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1856 - 590 pages
...men, it may well be quoted here — "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 interest of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...friendship, frequently to converse on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...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 - 454 pages
...friendship, frequently to converse on the two cardinal points of poetry. the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...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 - 448 pages
...friendship, frequently to converse on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, he beautifully says, — " which accident of light and shade, while moonlight or sunset diffused over... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...he describes them, on the two cardinal points of poetry, — the power of exciting the sympathy of a reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature,...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... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...Their origin is traced by him to some conversations with Wordsworth, turning, as he describes them, on the two 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 770 pages
...OF A POEM AND POETRY WITH SCHOLIA. DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors, f our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal...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... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 332 pages
...Coleridge defines the two 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 interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. As Poetry employs verbal signs to suggest to the' imagination noble grounds for noble... | |
 | Bath and West of England Society - 1859 - 470 pages
...torrents and castles forbid the eye to proceed, and nothing tempts it to trace its way back again." &c. " The two cardinal points of poetry — the power of...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...he describes them, on the two 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 in-' terest of novelty by the modifying colour of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of... | |
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