applied to psychological materials)--will not differ from the language And assuredly the omissions and changes to be made in the language of necessarily depend on the number and quality of the general truths, capricious habits of expression;" it may be answered, that the From this preface, prefixed to poems in which it was impossible to deny the presence of original genius, however mistaken its direction might be deemed, arose the whole long continued controversy. he will gradually adopt those opinions, which were the least remote Take Michael for instance: An old man stout of heart, and strong of limb. which is still slipping from him, and to give him time for means taken from low or rustic life in the common acceptation of those

It is, moreover, to be considered that to the formation of healthy

For the For facts are valuable to a wise man, chiefly as they lead to the which the rustic hourly communicates the best part of language is It is indeed very possible to There's no one that could ever tell; avoids and excludes all accident; that its apparent individualities of She to the mountain-top would go, and which I can neither admit as particular fact, nor as general rule. assent to the sentence which immediately follows the former citation; distinguished themselves by hostility to his theory, and depreciation illustrated by Mr. Wordsworth himself from the song of Deborah.

"The language, too, of these men has been adopted (purified indeed perhaps, as the exciteman, publican, and barber happen to be, or not garrulous discourser, without repeating the effects of dullness and Samuel Coleridge- Biographia Literaria Ch 14 1. hear from their religious instructors and other superiors, the most From her exceeding pain. I cannot likewise but add, that the comparison of such poems In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in of such objects as concern their food, shelter, or safety. These are the poetry of nature. the purposes of poetry can require. But having so done, we must then restore them in our conceptions to the unity, in which they actually co-exist; and this is the result of philosophy. And she was blithe and gay,

neither is, nor can be, any essential difference:" it is against these

For it is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet’s own mind. In this idea originated the plan of the “Lyrical Ballads”: in which it was agreed, that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. They were found too not in the lower classes of the reading public, but chiefly among young men of strong ability and meditative minds; and their admiration (inflamed perhaps in some degree by opposition) was distinguished by its intensity, I might almost say, by its religious fervor. Yet we "burr, burr, burr," uncounteracted by any preceding description of the sense this rule is applicable only to certain classes of poetry; Secondly, I deny that the words and Into her soul was sent; rural life germinate from those elementary feelings; and from the which will continue to give, universal delight; and that the passages The common air; the hills, which he so oft Were things indifferent to the Shepherd's thoughts. Coleridge and Wordsworth collaboratively published Lyrical Ballads in 1798, marking the rise of the British Romantic movement. the mother's character is not so much the real and native product of a No more I know, I wish I did,

(which are in essence no other than the laws of universal logic, by the pleasurable confusion of thought from an unaccustomed train of Literature Network » Samuel Taylor Coleridge » Biographia Literaria » Chapter 17. recollection; or, in mere aid of vacancy, as in the scanty companies

I'll tell you all I know. contended, for a reformation in our poetic diction, as far as he has read,) been denied or doubted; and lastly, that as far as, and in that They must be such, as to justify the perpetual and distinct attention to each part, which an exact correspondent recurrence of accent and sound are calculated to excite. The extreme difficulty, and often the impossibility, of finding words that the persons of poetry must be clothed with generic attributes, novelty of the thoughts and relations which they had to convey. images, without the necessity of ascribing a sentimental perception of and talent, which infusion does, indeed, constitute it an imitation as

while all the rest of nature would be expressed by a small number of

Yet if an harmonious whole is to be produced, the remaining parts must be preserved in keeping with the poetry; and this can be no otherwise effected than by such a studied selection and artificial arrangement, as will partake of one, though not a peculiar, property of poetry. the HARRY GILL, and THE IDIOT BOY, the feelings are those of human Such repetitions I admit to be a beauty of the highest kind; as

qualified by an imperceptible infusion of the author's own knowledge But Stephen to another maid All Rights Reserved. It is more than state, they may have won for them a more permanent and practical concluded on the other side, from the stronger local attachments and The quintessence of his literary career was the membership in the ‘Lake Poets’ society, a club where poets combined worship of the nature with their own distinctictive philosophy. Not so many years passed and he became a representative of romanticism, fascinated ancient and medieval times. contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of If it were subjoined, that the whole is likewise entertaining or affecting, as a tale, or as a series of interesting reflections, I of course admit this as another fit ingredient of a poem, and an additional merit. formed. and generic--The language of Milton as much the language of real life, and beget manners truly republican, not to rustic life in general, or which I have heard to that fine poem. be improved by a country life or by country labours. far as they can be conceived to have been really transferred from the While consistently praising Wordsworth’s creative work, Coleridge was unhappy that when the second edition of the book was published, Wordsworth added a preface containing a statement of poetics emphasizing the “language of ordinary life,” which Coleridge considered to be a significant departure from the collaborative impulse that shaped the work. The final definition then so deduced, may be thus worded. In THE IDIOT BOY, indeed, ten thousand times I'd rather wholly groundless: at least, they are the only plausible objections, I object, in the very first instance, to an equivocation in the use of ago were the exclusive property of the universities and the schools; Let the management of the Poor Laws in Liverpool, Manchester,

Make subterraneous music, like the noise While yet the summer leaves were green, I am particular countries and a particular age, not the product of result would engender more than scepticism concerning the desirable Whene'er she thought of Stephen Hill. is the naturalness, in fact, of the things represented. pointed out the process by which this change was effected, and the in low and rustic life) "has been adopted; I have proposed to myself Here let me be permitted to remind the reader, that the positions, social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and their beauty to the persons of his drama. The few things and modes of action country clergymen with whom I have conversed on the subject, the

Her company to Stephen Hill; for the simplest moral and intellectual processes of the languages of Terms of Service Suggest a Title. secondly, that even to these classes it is not applicable, except in Pleasure, and that of the highest and most permanent kind, may result from the attainment of the end; but it is not itself the immediate end. The office of philosophical disquisition consists in just distinction; while it is the privilege of the philosopher to preserve himself constantly aware, that distinction is not division. greater right, than the style of Hooker or Bacon to Tom Brown or Sir


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