Complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Volume 3; With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...his words may with slight alteration be applied, and even more appropriately, to the poetic Imagination)--Doubtless this could not be, but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation stran...
MoreThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...his words may with slight alteration be applied, and even more appropriately, to the poetic Imagination)--Doubtless this could not be, but that she turns Bodies to spirit by sublimation strange, As fire converts to fire the things it burns, As we our food into our nature change. From their gross matter she abstracts their forms, And draws a kind of quintessence from things; Which to her proper nature she transforms To bear them light on her celestial wings. Thus does she, when from individual states She doth abstract the universal kinds; Which then re-clothed in divers names and fates Steal access through the senses to our minds "A Sense is the Bodv of noetic cenius. Fancy its Drapery, Motion its Life, and Imagination the Soul that is everywhere, and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole. CHAPTER XV. THE SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS OF POETIC POWER ELUCIDATED IN A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SHAKSPEARE's VENUS AND ADONIS, AND RAPE OF LUCRECE.f In the application of these principles to purposes of practical criticism, as employed in the appraisement of works more or less imperfect, I have endeavored to discover what the qualities in a poem are, which may be deemed promises and specific symptoms of poetic power, as distinguished from general talent determined to poetic composition by accidental motives, by an act of the will, rather than by the inspiration of a genial and productive nature. In this investigation, I could not, I thought, do better, than keep before me the earliest work of the greatest genius, that perhaps human nature has yet produced, our myriadminded% Shakspeare. I mean the Venus And Adonis, and the Lucrece; works which give at once strong promises of the strength, and yet obvious proofs of the immaturity of his genius. From thes...
Publisher | RareBooksClub.com |
Binding | Paperback (76 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 306 |
ISBN-10 | 1236344383 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1236344380 |
Publication Date | 05/20/2012 |
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