 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
 | University of Chicago - English literature - 1903 - 368 pages
...trying to combine 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 of reality by the modifying colors of the imagination." The contradiction is reconciled in noticing that... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Criticism - 1904 - 692 pages
...often talked of 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 novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. And he illustrates this finely, by instancing 1 In practice, though not always in * I have, since this... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - English poetry - 1904 - 772 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... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - English prose literature - 1980 - 176 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 of novelty by l4. Venice Preserv'd, V, J, 369. Otway has laurels' for 'lobsters'. the modifying colours of imagination.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 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 novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. 3 The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a... | |
 | Christopher Haigh - History - 1990 - 400 pages
...Coleridge defined two cardinal points of poetry as "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"; Wordsworth invoked "impassioned contemplation" of nature in preface to Lyrical Ballads,... | |
 | Martin Gardner - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 618 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 moon-light or sun-set,... | |
 | Robert M. Ryan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 312 pages
...deliberately defamiliarized doctrines for political and religious effects, not only for the purpose of "giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination," as Coleridge said in another context, but to "rouze the faculties to act." Like all reformers, he saw... | |
 | Kenneth R. Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 1018 pages
...as Coleridge would generalize it in Biographia Literaria's account of the origin of Lyrical Ballads: "the power of giving the interest of novelty by the...modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a known and familiar... | |
 | Steven Schroeder - Christian sects - 1999 - 136 pages
...poetry, reported at the beginning of Chapter 14: "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." 21 These cardinal points are related to the distinction Coleridge draws between... | |
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