...composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the...second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary h'fe; the characters and incidents were to be such as will be found in every village and its vicinity,...

...than fulfils the author's purpose of inducing a ' poetic faith ' in its reality, and of ' interesting the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions,...naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.' This is partly achieved by the vividness with which such feelings interpret themselves, without effort,...

...than fulfils the author's purpose oTmducing a ' poetic faith ' in its reality, and of ' interesting the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions,...naturally accompany such situations, supposing them reaL'TThis is partly achieved by the vividness with which suchieelings interpret themselves, without...

...words supply helpful information: The incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections in the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them...

...these poems, says Coleridge, "the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the...time believed himself under supernatural agency." (BL p. 5, Vol. II.) This second cardinal point of poetry is also an instance of the reconcilement of...

...Coleridgean form of romanticism ("the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the...naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real") is "Christabel." But this poem is only a fragment, and though it shows some interesting metrical experiments...

...composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the...supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents were to be such, as will be found in every...

...composed of two sorts. In the one, the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the...naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. . . . . For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life; the characters and incidents...

...meditation and the language of symbol: The incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the...any time believed himself under supernatural agency. ... it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or...

...issue. How far the claims had already shifted onto psychological ground is immediately made evident: 'And real in this sense they have been to every human...has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency."6 Coleridge's province was to project the supernatural; Wordsworth's to show its presence in...