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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... "
A Handbook of English Literature - Page 169
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The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon

Lana A. Whited - Juvenile Fiction - 2004 - 436 pages
...Ballads. In chapter 14 of Biographia Literaria, Coleridge noted: my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. . . . [Wordsworth was] to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling...
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Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic

Simon During - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 358 pages
...Wordsworth's nonmagical orientation, Coleridge himself was to write this second group of poems, his aim being "to transfer from our inward nature a human interest...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith."5 Coleridge's magic here is more traditional than Shelley's, and psychologically more rudimentary...
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The National Revolution

Marc Nichanian - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 396 pages
...fell to Coleridge to discuss the supernatural, which had to be presented in such a way, he argued, as "to transfer from our inward nature a human interest...shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbeliev for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." Hagop Oshagan, Mnatsortats' [The Remnants],...
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The Poem in the Story: Music, Poetry, and Narrative

Harold Scheub - Social Science - 2002 - 338 pages
...James Sibree, Jr., "Malagasy Folk-Tales," t61-66. 224. John Roscoe, The Baganda, 136, 460-64. 225. "That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, II, 6 (chapter 14). 226. Mircea Eliade, Myth and Reality,...
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Movies as Literature

Kathryn Stout - Performing Arts - 2002 - 335 pages
...24. In referring to imaginative writing, 19' century poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge theorized, "It is that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith. " The term "willing suspension of disbelief" is one of the most often referred to bits of literary...
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The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

Lucy Newlyn - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 292 pages
...this condition, expanded beyond drama to poetry in general, comes to be known by a memorable formula: 'that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith' (BL n, 6). The central distinction between copy and imitation has wide-ranging implications for Coleridge's...
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The Entertainment Marketing Revolution: Bringing the Moguls, the Media, and ...

Al Lieberman, Patricia Esgate - Business & Economics - 2002 - 388 pages
...the movie screen, 3 OVERVIEW MDVI WANNAS HAFTASEE, AND MU *—I amuei Taylor Coleridge called drama "that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith," Most modern producers would probably call the act of frnancing and making a movie the willing suspension...
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Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Fiction - 2003 - 356 pages
...originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed that my labours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic;...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith. Mr Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty...
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The Broad Church: A Biography of a Movement

Tod E. Jones - History - 2003 - 362 pages
...planning Lyrical Ballads, "it was agreed," says Coleridge, "that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic;...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." 38 Of the four poems by Coleridge that were included in the first edition—"The Rime of the Ancient...
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The Poetics of Childhood

Roni Natov - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 320 pages
...Coleridge in their plan for the Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge wrote: my endeavors should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. . . . [Wordsworth was] to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling...
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