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... An Introduction to the Study of Poetry - Page 198by Henry Bernard Cotterill - 1882 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...supposing them real. The supernatural fell to the share of Coleridge ; and his endeavour, he tells us, was to transfer from our inward nature a human interest...and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for the shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 770 pages
...In this idea originated the plan of the LYRICAL BALLADS ; in which it "was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty... | |
| 1856 - 368 pages
...them when they present themselves. In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed...and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for those shadows of imagination * Those singular persons who delight to represent Coleridge, for praise... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...supposing them real. The supernatural fell to the share of Coleridge; and his endeavour, he tells us, was to transfer from our inward nature a human interest...and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for the shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...this idea originated the plan of the LYRICAL BALLADS ; in •which it was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure foF these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...In this idea originated the plan of the LYRICAL BALLADS ; in which it was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to proeure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which... | |
| John Wilson - 1865 - 444 pages
...characters supernatural, or, at least, romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a purer interest, and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure...these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of_beliefjbr the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose... | |
| 1865 - 496 pages
...every-day life, while the endeavours of Coleridge, to use his own words in the " Biographia Literaria," should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic. They fixed upon a subject which they agreed to elaborate together, and which afterwards bore the name... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...them when they present themselves. In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed...disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. Mr Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty... | |
| 1871 - 818 pages
...came into his mind the first vision of a poetry which should deal with the supernatural and invisible, "yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." This was his meaning ; but it was, we feel convinced — believing, as we do, that the poet, like the... | |
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