On the Art of Writing · Character
Coleridge
Romantic poet and critic quoted on imagination and language.
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First appearance: lecture iii on the difference between verse and prose
Coleridge shows up with force in Lecture IV: On the Capital Difficulty of Verse. The page is where that presence becomes real.
Cited for his philosophical explanation of metre from Biographia Literaria, though the lecturer prefers a simpler historical approach.
Coleridge first appears in 0005 lecture iii on the difference between verse and prose.
In Lecture IV: On the Capital Difficulty of Verse: Cited for his philosophical explanation of metre from Biographia Literaria, though the lecturer prefers a simpler historical approach.
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See Coleridge in lecture iii on the difference between verse and prose