 DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5351834Full view - About this book
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 pages
...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty, by the modifying colors of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset,... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 286 pages
...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty, by the modifying colors of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset,... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 288 pages
...cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful ad herence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty, by the modifying colors of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1893 - 886 pages
...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest oi novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1897 - 250 pages
...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset, diffused over a known and familiar landscape,... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 620 pages
...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused... | |
 | Louis Du Pont Syle - English poetry - 1894 - 488 pages
...frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry : the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 272 pages
...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset, diffused over a known and familiar landscape,... | |
 | Frederick Henry Sykes - 1895 - 690 pages
...Wordsworth often turned on " two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.... The thought suggested itself that a series of poems might bo composed of two sorts. In the one the incidents... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 396 pages
...frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry : the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. . . . The thought suggested itself (to which of us, I do not recollect) that... | |
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