...their utterances may have dramatic plausibility enough to procure for them, in the words of Coleridge, 'that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith'." It is to the utterances of these ethereal beings that we must look for whatever of poetry there may...

...part of the plan of the Lyrical Ballads formed between the two poets, and Coleridge was to work upon "persons and characters supernatural, or at least...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." Thus Coleridge's temper and imagination, the dream of his friend, the suggestion of Wordsworth, the...

...of the volume of poems, known as Lyrical Ballads (p. 390) : — "... it was agreed that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. l''rom a sketch made in Gerinatiy. COLERIDGE AS A YOUNG MAN Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was...

...from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. . . . In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes Poetic faith. pOCtlC faith. ST COLERIDGE, Biograpkia Literaria, 1817. Allegory. The mere etymological meaning of...

...journalist, as well as id poet, took for his sphere, when he and Wordsworth projected Lyrical Ballads, 'persons and characters supernatural, or at least...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.' His output was large and varied, as we shall see, but his genius was supremely exercised by the kind...

...themselves. least romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a sem-" blance nches, all twined together into an endless network...solemn forms of angels, sceptred, and robed to the the'other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of...

...given solely for their benefit. It seems as if they might be indisposed to grant what Coleridge calls " that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." So the master seeks to justify the dramatist by asking the boys whence they obtained their picture...

...utterances may have dramatic plausibility enough to procure for them, in the words of Coleridge, " that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith." But there is yet another Spirit — the ultimate, the absolute Spirit, the " Immanent Will " — into...

...or at any rate romantic, which he was to endeavour to infuse with a human interest, and with that " semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith."1 Wordsworth's share was to be the events of every-day life, by preference in its humblest form...

...the slain albatross. Coleridge afterward explained his purpose in writing the poem to be "to orocure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith."] ARGUMENT How a ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold Country toward the South...