...Coleridge, in his literary biography, discusses the relation of verisimilitude and the poetic imagination: "(T|he two cardinal points of poetry, the power of...the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of the imagination." A balance of these elements produces "a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient...

...response to Coleridge's account.)7 Wordsworth, the ultimate poet, is meant to combine what Coleridge calls the 'two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination' (BL ii 5); and Biographia sporadically announces his success while, sometimes...

...recalled that this project of rejuvenation hecame an ohjective of Lyrical Ballads. as the poets talked of "the two cardinal points of poetry. the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader hy a faithful adherence to the truth of nature. and the power of giving the interest of novehy hy the...

...alienation: for Novalis, it is the power of making the familiar distant and strange; for Coleridge, the "power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of the imagination." The uncontrolled expansion of concepts until they referred potentially to everything...

...a compromise rather than an ideal. During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set...

...collaboration on the Lyrical Ballads (1798) that the first of two cardinal principals of poetry was "the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature" (Biographia Literaria 5). Shelley concurred about the civilizing effects of reading poetry, though...