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BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817. The powers of Poetry. Excite the symphaty of the reader, by a faithful aderhence to the truth of Nature Give the interest of the novelty by the modyifing colours of imagination. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tasks of the two poets. Coleridge:
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BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817
The powers of Poetry • Excite the symphaty of the reader, by a faithful aderhence to the truth of Nature • Give the interest of the novelty by the modyifing colours of imagination Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tasks of the two poets Coleridge: • Poems have to deal with supernatural events Wordsworth: • Poems have to deal with things of ordinary life
Coleridge’s Poetry Coleridge has to: • Direct his endeavours to persons and characters supernatural • Search the willing suspenction of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith
Wordsworth’s Poetry Wordsworth has to: • Give the charms of novelty to everyday things • Awake the mind’s attention to the letargy of custom and sirect it to the wonders of world before us
The Poet • Described in ideal perfection • Brings the whole soul of man into activity • Blends a tone and a spirit of unity by that synthetic and magical power, the Imagination
Imagination • Is put in action by the will and understanding • Reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities (ex: general with concrete, idea with image, sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects)