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... Biographia Literaria - Page 10by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 316 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition then, so deduced, may be thus worded. A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,...whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part. Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the disputants attaching... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition, then, so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,...whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part. Controversy is not seldom excited, in consequence of the disputants attaching... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition, then, so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species oft languishment of warbled airs, If haply melodies...sorrow for a while. $15 SJOtt (Soft Miiiic). Enter »•/,,, -'i . as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part. Controversy... | |
| Asa Mahan - Psychology - 1845 - 348 pages
...I have met with. I will present, as an example, that given by Coleridge : " A poem is that species of composition which is opposed to works of science,...whole as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part." The great objection to this definition is, that many prose, as well as poetical... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...final definition, then, so deduced, may be Ihus worded : A poem is that species of composition, wl.ich is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its...pleasure, not truth ; and from all other species, (having titis object in common with it.) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from tho whole,... | |
| 1848 - 734 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition, then. so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,...whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part." The discrimination here made seems to cover too much ; for the gratification... | |
| 1848 - 722 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition, then, so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,...whole, as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part." The discrimination here made seems to cover too much ; for the gratification... | |
| 1848 - 1390 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition, then. so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,...pleasure, not truth ; and from all other species (having thi* object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1849 - 578 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition, then, so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,...pleasure, not truth ; and from all other species, (having uii object in common with it,) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the wliulr,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1852 - 874 pages
...calculated to excite. The final definition then, so deduced, may be thus worded. A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,...truth ; and from all other species • — (having tins object in common with it) — it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the... | |
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