 ... bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that poetry, even that of the loftiest and, seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex,...  Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions - Page 12by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos - American poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...called "sound reasoning," and conventional cliches. "In the truly great poets," Coleridge's teacher would say, "there is a reason assignable, not only...for every word, but for the position of every word." In this organic explanation of form as a truly intelligent and beautifully integrated whole, there... | |
 | Anna Maria Cimitile - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 180 pages
...more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In thè truly great poets, there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for thè posiHon of every word...37 È il motivo per cui la poesia è intraducibile: it would be scarsely... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 278 pages
...minute attention. Coleridge explains how a schoolmaster taught him that: "In the truly great poets . . . there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word. ..." Coleridge's teacher required his students to compare individual words in Homer's poetry with synonyms,... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1915 - 566 pages
...of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent upon more, and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would...for every word, but for the position of every word." This, then, is the way in which the great experiment, if one may so describe it, worked out in a particular... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1859 - 606 pages
...severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets, he would...is a reason assignable not only for every word, but also for the position of every word.' Here is, in truth, the great desideratum in English education.... | |
 | Literature - 1905 - 618 pages
...lesson on this from Coleridge's ' Biographia Literaria ' where it is set down, that in a true poem there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word. He applied this principle as a test, rigidly. For example, in his criticism of ' Barnaby Rudge,' he... | |
 | Linda Anderson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 674 pages
...best words in the best order' he asserted that there is in the words of the greatest poets 'a reason not only for every word but for the position of every word' in the well-ordered sentence the hearer or the reader will receive no jolt or check Herbert Spencer... | |
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