Learning Path » 5B Interacting
BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA
Es 2
Topic in Wordsworth and Coleridge’s conversations
a) The power of poetry:
1. excite the sympathy of the reader by means of adherence to the truth of Nature
2. impress the interest of novelty by mans of the modifying colours of imagination
b) Writing a collection of poem of two kinds:
1. subject: supernatural incidents and agents
2. subject: events of ordinary life
c) Plan of the Lyrical Ballads:
| Coleridge | Wordsworth |
Subject: | Supernatural persons and characers | Events of ordinary life |
Aim: | To excite the sympathy of the reader | To give them the charm of novelty |
Procedure: | By pushing the reader out of his rational state of mind to permit him to meet poetic faith, in one word by using imagination | By directing the mind’s attention to the loveliness and wonders of the world |
Profile of ideal poet:
1. he “brings the whole soul of man into activity”
2. he IS gifted with the qualities to simulate the Imagination into reader