Coleridge.
1.
From Biographia
Literaria.
a.
From Chapter 1.
i. Presents
two critical aphorisms applied to poetic style.
1.
The greatest pleasure arises from those poems we
return to.
2.
If it can be said better or the same as the
language presented, it is considered defective in their diction.
ii. Excluded
from the aphorisms are:
1.
The pleasure derived from mere novelty.
2.
The desire of exciting wonderment at the powers
of the author.
iii. Great
poetry should be original and use fantastic language.
b.
From Chapter 4.
i. Excellence
means to represent familiar objects so as to awaken in the minds of others a
kindred feeling concerning them.
ii. Fancy
and imagination are two distinct things.
c.
From Chapter 13.
i. Imagination
is considered primary, or secondary.
ii. Primary
imagination is the living Power and prime Agent of all human perception.
iii. Secondary
imagination is an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, and
different in degree as primary imagination.
d.
From Chapter 14.
i. Two
cardinal points of poetry.
1.
There is a power by exciting the sympathy of the
reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature.
2.
There is a power by giving the interest of
novelty by modifying colors of imagination.
ii. The
writer’s intention is determines if a composition is poetry.
iii. The
poem should move the reader forward by the pleasurable activity of the mind and
from the journey itself, and not by mechanical impulse or the desire to finish
it.
Works
Cited
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Biographia
Literaria. 1817. Gutenberg.org.
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