1 / 7

BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA

BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817. The powers of Poetry. Excite the symphaty of the reader, by a faithful aderhence to the truth of Nature Give the interest of the novelty by the modyifing colours of imagination. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tasks of the two poets. Coleridge:

borna
Download Presentation

BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817

  2. The powers of Poetry • Excite the symphaty of the reader, by a faithful aderhence to the truth of Nature • Give the interest of the novelty by the modyifing colours of imagination Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  3. Tasks of the two poets Coleridge: • Poems have to deal with supernatural events Wordsworth: • Poems have to deal with things of ordinary life

  4. Coleridge’s Poetry Coleridge has to: • Direct his endeavours to persons and characters supernatural • Search the willing suspenction of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith

  5. Wordsworth’s Poetry Wordsworth has to: • Give the charms of novelty to everyday things • Awake the mind’s attention to the letargy of custom and sirect it to the wonders of world before us

  6. The Poet • Described in ideal perfection • Brings the whole soul of man into activity • Blends a tone and a spirit of unity by that synthetic and magical power, the Imagination

  7. Imagination • Is put in action by the will and understanding • Reveals itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant qualities (ex: general with concrete, idea with image, sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects)

More Related