 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...friendship, frequently to converse on the two cardinal points of poetry. the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, he beautifully says, — " which accident of light an! shade,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...friendship, frequently to converse on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, he beautifully says, — " which accident of light and shade,... | |
 | 1857 - 336 pages
...Their origin is traced by him to some conversations with Wordsworth, turning, as he describes them, on the two cardinal points of poetry, — the power of exciting the sympathy of a reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 770 pages
...OF A POEM AND POETRY WITH SCHOLIA. DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbors, f our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal...novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. The sndden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and... | |
 | 1856 - 368 pages
...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...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - English essays - 1858 - 332 pages
...Coleridge defines the two cardinal points of Poetry to be the power of exciting the reader's sympathy by a faithful adherence to the truth of Nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. As Poetry employs verbal signs to suggest to the' imagination noble grounds... | |
 | Bath and West of England Society - 1859 - 470 pages
...torrents and castles forbid the eye to proceed, and nothing tempts it to trace its way back again." &c. " The two cardinal points of poetry — the power of...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination ; the sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sun^-i... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...he describes them, on the two cardinal points of poetry,—the power of exciting the sympathy of a reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the in-' terest of novelty by the modifying colour of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...and I were neighbors,}: 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 ttie truth of nature, and the /power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...authentically narrated by Coleridge : — " During the first year that Mr Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or b sunset,... | |
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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... 
