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Title: BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA


1
BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • 1817

2
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
3
Tasks of the two poets
  • Coleridge
  • Poems have to deal with supernatural events
  • Wordsworth
  • Poems have to deal with things of ordinary life

4
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

5
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

6
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

7
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)
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