EXERCISES.

Ex.2.

Topics in Wordsworth and Coleridge's conversations

a) The powers of poetry(par.1):
1. exciting the sympathy of the reader by means of a faithful adherence to the truth of nature;
2. giving the interest of novelty by means of the modifying colours of imagination.

b)Writing a collection of poems of two kinds (par.1):
1. subject: supernatural incidents and agents;
2. subject: ordinary characters and incidents.

c) Plan of the Lyrical Ballads (par.2):
COLERIDGE:
subject:   supernatural persons and characters;
aim:   the interesting of the affection by the dramatic truth of such emotions;
procedure:   by accompanying such situations naturally, supposing them real.
WORDSWORTH:
subject:   ordinary characters and incidents;
aim:   to give them the charm of novelty;
procedure:   by directing the mind's attention to the loveliness and wonders of the world.

Profile of the ideal poet (par.3):
1. he "brings the whole soul of man into activity" and he "diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends each into each with the magic power of Imagination;
2. he is gifted with will and understanding, gentle and unnoticed control, sameness with difference, general with concrete, the idea with the image, the individual with the representative, the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects.