Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Chapters I-IV, XIV-XXII. Wordsworth, Prefaces and Essays on Poetry, 1800-1815University Press, 1920 - 327 pages |
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... references to it become frequent and continue until their very frequency grows pathetic : Sunday , Aug. 31st , 1800. At 11 o'clock Coleridge came , when I was walking in the still clear moonshine in the garden . 4 Oct. We talked till ...
... references to it become frequent and continue until their very frequency grows pathetic : Sunday , Aug. 31st , 1800. At 11 o'clock Coleridge came , when I was walking in the still clear moonshine in the garden . 4 Oct. We talked till ...
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... reference to my age , were somewhat above mediocrity , and which had gained me more credit than the sound , good sense of my old master was at all pleased with , ) — poetry itself , yea , novels and romances , became insipid to me . In ...
... reference to my age , were somewhat above mediocrity , and which had gained me more credit than the sound , good sense of my old master was at all pleased with , ) — poetry itself , yea , novels and romances , became insipid to me . In ...
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... reference to fixed canons of criticism , previously established and deduced from the nature of man ; reflecting minds will pronounce it arro- gance in them thus to announce themselves to men of letters , as the guides of their taste and ...
... reference to fixed canons of criticism , previously established and deduced from the nature of man ; reflecting minds will pronounce it arro- gance in them thus to announce themselves to men of letters , as the guides of their taste and ...
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... reference to , the author's peculiar opinions , and that the reader had not had his attention previously directed to those peculiarities . In that case , as actually happened with Mr. Southey's earlier works , the lines and passages ...
... reference to , the author's peculiar opinions , and that the reader had not had his attention previously directed to those peculiarities . In that case , as actually happened with Mr. Southey's earlier works , the lines and passages ...
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... reference to the metre , in no respect differ from that of good prose , but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose , when prose is well written . The truth ...
... reference to the metre , in no respect differ from that of good prose , but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose , when prose is well written . The truth ...
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