BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA

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BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 1817

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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
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Tasks of the two poets

• Coleridge
• Poems have to deal with supernatural events
• Wordsworth
• Poems have to deal with things of ordinary life

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Coleridges 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

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Wordsworths Poetry

• Wordsworth has to
• Give the charms of novelty to everyday things
• Awake the minds attention to the letargy of
  custom and sirect it to the wonders of world
  before us

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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

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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)