1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1817
BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1817

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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)