Biographia Literaria

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Topics in Wordsworth and Coleridge's conversations 

•a)      The powers of poetry (par 1) :

1. exciting the sympathy of the reading by means a faithful adherence to the truth of nature.
2. giving the interest of novelty (innovation) by means the modifying colours of imagination.

•b)      Writing a collection of poems of two kinds (par 1):

•1.      subject: supernatural incidents and agents

•2.      subject: incidents chose from ordinary life

c) Plan of the Lyrical Ballands

Coleridge

1. subject supernatural incidents and agents.
2. aim: to give a semblance of truth to procure willing suspension of disbelief
3. procedure: by using imagination 

Wordsworth

1. subject: incidents from common life
2. aim: to give them the charm of novelty
3. procedure: loveliness and wonders of the world

 PROFILE OF THE IDEAL POET

1. he brings the whole soul of main into activity

2. he is gifted with imagination