...loveliness and the wonders of the world before us," Coleridge, on the other hand, was to deal with "persons and characters supernatural, or at least...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith" (Biographia Literaria, ch. 14). In a word, Wordsworth was to render the natural magical, and Coleridge...

...to every human being who, from what ever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself to be under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith: These two quotations suffice in themselves to carry us, by easy and inevitable transitions, to the...

...contains the famous passage describing the initiation of the vol., in which it was agreed, says C., ' that my endeavours should be directed to persons and...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith '. With Wordsworth's part we are not immediately concerned, but we may observe that he was to reverse...

...of the Lyrical Ballads ; in which it was agreed that my endeavours should be directed to personsand characters supernatural or, at least, romantic ; yet...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith: These two quotations suffice in themselves to carry us, by easy and inevitable transitions, to the...

...endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural , or at least romantic; yet so äs to transfer from our inward nature a human interest...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. . . With this view I wrote 'The Ancient Mariner1. " It will thus be seen that Coleridge's account differs...

...like to have to say. I am content to rest in the fact that somehow we do, in Coleridge's phrase, ' transfer from our inward nature a human interest and...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith '. What is worth dwelling on is this. The reintroduction into poetry of the supernatural, which the...

...agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life ; the characters and 199 incidents were to be such as will be found in every...of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to th* supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to...

...over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. ... In this idea originated the plan of the " Lyrical...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith. . . . With this view I wrote the "Ancient Mariner.'" * The far-reaching significance of the paragraphs...

...should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to trans/ er from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith. . . . W7ith this view I wrote the "Ancient Mariner.'" * The far-reaching significance of the paragraphs...

...and unfamiliar objects". This is what Coleridge himself set out to achieve in the Lyrical Ballads : "It was agreed that my endeavours should be directed...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith." (BL p. 6, Vol. II.) In these poems, says Coleridge, "the incidents and agents were to be, in part at...