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MFregonese - Biographia Literaria
by MFregonese - (2010-11-24)
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Ex 2

a)The powers of poetry:

  1. Truth of nature by means of adherence toreality
  2. Make nature interesting by means of the modifying colours of imaginations

b)  Writing a colection of poems of two kinds:

  1. supernatural incidents and agents
  2. Common life situations

c) Plan of the Lyrical Ballads:

  1. Colerige: Supernatural persons and characters, to procure the shadow of immagination a willing of suspention, give the supernatural a natural connotation
  2. Wordsworth: Everyday life situations, give them the charm of novelity, direct the minds attention toworld's beauty.
The ideal poet:
  1. he "brings the whole soul of man into activity"
  2. he is gifted with imagination