Topics in Wordsorth and Coleridge's conversations

a) The powers of poetry:

1.Power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by means of faithful adherence to the truth of nature.

2.Power of giving the interest of novelty by means of the modifyng colours of imagination.

b) Writing a collection of poems of two kinds:

1 .Subject: supernatural incidents and agent.

2.Subject: chosen from ordinary life, incidents and agents like in every vilage.

c)Plan of the Lyrical Ballads:

Coleridge

Subject: supernatural persons and characters

Aim: suspension of disbelief for the moment

Procedure: giving them a semblance of truth

Profile of the ideal poet

1 he brings “the whole soul of man into activity”

2 he is gifted with imagination