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CHAPTER I. The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication – The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets ...
CHAPTER I. The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication – The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds - Bowles's sonnets - Comparison between the Poets ...
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... and the application of the rules , deduced from philosophical principles , to poetry and criticism . ... as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the ...
... and the application of the rules , deduced from philosophical principles , to poetry and criticism . ... as far as possible , a settlement of the long continued controversy concerning the true nature of poetic diction : and at the ...
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did not demand a degree of attention unsuitable to the nature and objects of poetry . This remark however applies chiefly , though not exclusively to the Religious Musings . The remainder of the charge I admitted to its full extent ...
did not demand a degree of attention unsuitable to the nature and objects of poetry . This remark however applies chiefly , though not exclusively to the Religious Musings . The remainder of the charge I admitted to its full extent ...
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... and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise , originate in unfeigned diffidence of my own comparative talent .
... and the desire of giving a poetic colouring to abstract and metaphysical truths , in which a new world then seemed to open upon me , did yet , in part likewise , originate in unfeigned diffidence of my own comparative talent .
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At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and ... I learnt from him , that Poetry , even that of the loftiest , and , seemingly , that of the wildest odes , had a ...
At the same time that we were studying the Greek Tragic Poets , he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons : and ... I learnt from him , that Poetry , even that of the loftiest , and , seemingly , that of the wildest odes , had a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 220 - Keen Pangs of Love, awakening as a babe Turbulent, with an outcry in the heart ; And Fears self-willed, that shunned the eye of Hope; And Hope that scarce would know itself from Fear ; Sense of past Youth, and Manhood come in vain, And Genius given, and Knowledge won in vain...
Página 296 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Página 19 - Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes; Youth on the prow, and pleasure at the helm; Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.
Página 184 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Página 124 - ... wins its way up against the stream, by alternate pulses of active and passive motion, now resisting the current, and now yielding to it in order to gather strength and a momentary fulcrum for a further propulsion. This is no unapt emblem of the mind's self-experience in the act of thinking.
Página 9 - In our own English compositions, (at least for the last three years of our school education), he showed no mercy to phrase, metaphor, or image, unsupported by a sound sense, or where the same sense might have been conveyed with equal force and dignity in plainer words.
Página 160 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding ; whence the Soul Reason receives, and Reason is her being, Discursive, or Intuitive: Discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Página 17 - Well were it for me, perhaps, had I never relapsed into the same mental disease, if I had continued to pluck the flower and reap the harvest from the cultivated surface. instead of delving in the unwholesome quicksilver mines of metaphysic depths.
Página 83 - ... arbitrary and illogical phrases, at once hackneyed, and fantastic, which hold so distinguished a place in the technique of ordinary poetry, and will, more or less, alloy the earlier poems of the truest genius, unless the attention has been specifically directed to their worthlessness and incongruity...
Página 227 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
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| Título | Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Volumen1 de Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Autor | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Colaboradores | Rest Fenner, John Mathew Gutch |
| Editor | Rest Fenner, 23, Paternoster Row, 1817 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 2 Ago. 2007 |
| Largo | 309 páginas |
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