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
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 pages
...Literaria. Chapter XIV. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors, our conversation turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry,...exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful ad herence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty, by the modifying... | |
| John Morley - 1894 - 620 pages
...thus described: " During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours our conversation turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry,...the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused... | |
| Louis Du Pont Syle - 1894 - 496 pages
...XIV. of his Biographia Literaria : ' During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal...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... | |
| Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...Coleridge's account shows the philosophic side. His conversation, he said, with Wordsworth often turned on " two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting...novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.... The thought suggested itself that a series of poems might bo composed of two sorts. In the one the incidents... | |
| Kate Stephens, Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors," writes Coleridge, in Biographia Literaria, "our conversation turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry:...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 - 1895 - 272 pages
...of a Poem and Poetry, with scholia. DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal...and the power of giving the interest of novelty by 5 the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which... | |
| R. McWilliam - 1897 - 176 pages
...activity. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned chiefly on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of...novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The thought suggested itself that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one the incidents... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1897 - 156 pages
...Literaria, Chap. XIV., says: — " 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 sympapathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 300 pages
...shooting of the albatross. This is Wordsworth's account. Coleridge speaks of a conversation between them on " the two cardinal points of poetry, the power...novelty by the modifying colours of imagination." The two friends were to illustrate these points ; Coleridge by verses of a " supernatural " cast ; Wordsworth... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Andrew Lang - 1898 - 300 pages
...shooting of the albatross. This is Wordsworth's account. Coleridge speaks of a conversation between them on " the two cardinal points of poetry, the power...novelty by the modifying colours of imagination." The two friends were to illustrate these points ; Coleridge by verses of a " supernatural " cast ; Wordsworth... | |
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