Biographia Literaria, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1907 - Aesthetics |
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... attention from the lethargy 10 of custom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ; an inexhaustible treasure , but for which , in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have ...
... attention from the lethargy 10 of custom , and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us ; an inexhaustible treasure , but for which , in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude we have ...
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... attention to each part , which an exact correspondent recurrence of accent and sound are calculated to excite . The final definition then , so deduced , may be thus worded . A poem is that species 5 of composition , which is opposed to ...
... attention to each part , which an exact correspondent recurrence of accent and sound are calculated to excite . The final definition then , so deduced , may be thus worded . A poem is that species 5 of composition , which is opposed to ...
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... attention required on the part of the reader ; from the rapid flow , the quick change , and the playful nature 35 of the thoughts and images ; and above all from the aliena- " " tion , and , if I may hazard such an CH . XV 15 Biographia ...
... attention required on the part of the reader ; from the rapid flow , the quick change , and the playful nature 35 of the thoughts and images ; and above all from the aliena- " " tion , and , if I may hazard such an CH . XV 15 Biographia ...
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... attention from the main subject by those frequent witty or profound reflections , which the poet's 15 ever active mind has deduced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . The reader is forced into too much action to ...
... attention from the main subject by those frequent witty or profound reflections , which the poet's 15 ever active mind has deduced from , or connected with , the imagery and the incidents . The reader is forced into too much action to ...
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... attention was especially fixed on those of Italy , from the birth to the death of Shakespeare ; that 25 being the country in which the fine arts had been most sedulously , and hitherto most successfully cultivated . Ab- stracted from ...
... attention was especially fixed on those of Italy , from the birth to the death of Shakespeare ; that 25 being the country in which the fine arts had been most sedulously , and hitherto most successfully cultivated . Ab- stracted from ...
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Page 6 - 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 for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Page 12 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Page 43 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...
Page 74 - LORD, with what care hast thou begirt us round ! Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes. Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Page 35 - Humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language...
Page 51 - By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Page 6 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself, as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 31 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Page 48 - And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new-born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields to all their wonted tribute bear; To warm their little loves the birds complain. I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear And weep the more because I weep in vain.
Page 10 - A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth ; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.