 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - 2004 - 354 pages
...the real. Southey exposed, and reduced to absurdity, the Romantic intention, as Coleridge defined it, to 'procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief. . . which constitutes poetic faith' (BL, vol. n, p. 6) . It was, perhaps, from a wish to differentiate... | |
 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 362 pages
...different order. As Coleridge himself wrote about the poem, he treated the supernatural characters "so as to transfer from our inward nature a human...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith."4 It is to Coleridge's conception of "our inward nature" that the reader's attention is drawn,... | |
 | Sally West - 2007 - 222 pages
...argument accords with Coleridge's retrospective description of his contribution to Lyrical Ballads: My endeavours should be directed to persons and characters...disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.25 There seems to be a correlation between the creation of 'poetic faith' - the injunction to... | |
 | Ralph Flores - 2009 - 234 pages
...requires what not all readers are prepared for. Samuel T. Coleridge called it, in 1817, the ability "to transfer from our inward nature a human interest...disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."20 With that term, suspension of disbelief, Coleridge has in mind the supernatural spirits and... | |
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; 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... 
