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100 _aColeridge Samuel Taylor
245 _aColeridge's principles of criticism: Chapters I.,III., IV.,XIV.-XXII of biographia Literaria /
_cSamuel Taylor Coleridge.
250 _b1895.
260 _aNew York.
_bD.C. heath & co. publishers;
_c1895.
300 _a226 p . ;
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505 _aChapter I The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication- Discipline of his taste at school - The effect of contemporary writers upon youthful minds - Bowles's Sonnets - comparison of the poets before and since Pope Chapter II The Author's obligation to critics, and the probable occasion - principles of modern criticism - Mr. Southey's works and character Chapter III The lyrical Ballads, with the preface - Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems - on fancy and imagination - the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts Chapter IV Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed - preface to the second edition - The ensuring controversy, its causes and Acrimony - Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry, with scholia Chapter V The specific symptoms of poetic power elucidated in a critical analysis of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and rape of Lucrece Chapter VI Striking points of difference between the poets of the present age and those of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - wish expressed for the union of the characteristic merits of both Chapter VII Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth - Rustic life especially unfavourable to the formation of a Human diction - The best parts of language the products of philosophers, not of clowns or shepherds - poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so, than that of the cottager Chapter VIII Language of metrical composition, why and wherein essentially different from that of prose - origin ad elements of metre - its necessary consequences, and the conditions thereby imposed on the metrical writer in the choice of his diction Chapter IX Continuation - concerning the real object which it is probable Mr. Wordsworth had before him in his critical preface - Elucidation and application of this Chapter X The former subject continued - The Neutral style, or that common to prose and poetry, exemplifies by specimens from Chaucer, Herbert and others Chapter XI Remarks on the present mode of conducting critical journals Chapter XII The characteristic defects of Mr. Wordsworth's poetry, with the principles from which the judgement that they are defects is deduced - Their proportion to the beauties - for the greatest part characteristic of his theory only Chronological Notes References
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