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" Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic — yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure... "
The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 104
by James Gillman - 1838 - 362 pages
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The Principles and Progress of English Poetry

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 726 pages
..." In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...nature a human interest and a semblance of truth, sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the...
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The Principles and Progress of English Poetry

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 772 pages
..." In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...nature a human interest and a semblance of truth, sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the...
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English Poetry: Its Principles and Progress, with Representative ...

Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1904 - 722 pages
..." In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads, in which it was agreed that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...nature a human interest and a semblance of truth, sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief, for the...
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Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Literary Possession

Susan Eilenberg - 1992 - 302 pages
...Massachusetts Press, 1980). Chapter 1: The Propriety of the Lyrical Ballads 1. Coleridge was to write about "persons and characters supernatural, or at least...inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the...
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Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism

Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff - 1993 - 520 pages
...Lyrical Ballads, an experiment he is anxious to legitimize in the Biographia Literaria: [M]y endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the...
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In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory

Louise Chawla - 1994 - 260 pages
...Coleridge described the book's plan, he himself was to create characters romantic or supernatural: so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the...
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Plain and Ordinary Things: Reading Women in the Writing Classroom

Deborah Anne Dooley - 1995 - 304 pages
...of Art," in Poetry, Language, Thought, 64) 15. "It was agreed," Coleridge wrote, "that my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the...
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Contemporary Legend: A Reader

Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith - 1996 - 434 pages
...telling (or purporting to tell) her story 'for true." Therefore throughout her rendition she attempts to: transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows ... that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment that...
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The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995

Martin Gardner - 1997 - 618 pages
...them, or to notice them, when they present themselves. In this idea originated the plan of the Lyrical Ballads; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours...inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the...
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Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularization in Literature from Wordsworth ...

R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 pages
...might be composed of two sorts.' They agreed to divide the poems between them and that Coleridge's 'should be directed to persons and characters supernatural,...inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the...
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