...first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours," says Coleridge in his Biographia Littraria, "our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal...of poetry — the power of exciting the sympathy of a reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty...

...practicability of combining" those two distinct forces in poetry which they were so fond of discussing—" the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature—and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination."...

...practicability of combining" those two distinct forces in poetry which they were so fond of discussing — " the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination." Wordsworth's part was that of the sunshine, dwelling upon and bringing out...

...Biographia Literaria " how the division, of labour was first planned : — " During tho first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations...poetry, — the power of exciting the sympathy of a reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and tho power of giving the interest of novelty...

...account."* Coleridge, in the preceding chapter of his Literary Life, says : " During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations...novelty by the modifying colours of imagination." In Coleridge's Literary Remains the Venus and Adonis is cited as furnishing a signal example of " that...

...thus described : " During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours our conversation turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry,...the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused...

...described : — " During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours our conversation turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry,...the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused...

...thus described: ' " During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours our conversation turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry,...sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth_of nat.nrp, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination^...

...Poem and Poetry, with scholia. TOURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neigh\J bours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of excitingjthe sympath^of_the reaper by a faithful adherence' to the truth"of'nature, and the power of...

...to self* 2 deception ; and that when we are led to infer that in a poem, or in a series of poems, " the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence in the truth of nature, and the power of giving novelty by the modifying colours of imagination " were...