...frequently on the two car dinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympalhy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of 594 595 novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light...

...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination. The sudden charm which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused...

...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. 3 The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set diffused over a...

...Coleridge defined two cardinal points of poetry as "the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature and...the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of the imagination"; Wordsworth invoked "impassioned contemplation" of nature in preface to Lyrical Ballads,...

..."adherence to the truth of nature" and the "modifying colors of imagination" which Coleridge was to see in the "sudden charm which accidents of light and shade,...sun-set diffused over a known and familiar landscape." 16 Urged to delight the spectators with "Phantomes," Night now sings a song (following Delight's recitative),...

...proposed to himself as plausible for presenting the visions of a romantic imagination: to make use of "the sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade,...moonlight or sun-set diffused over a known and familiar landscape."10 Hawthorne had used the "moonlight of romance" (CE 10:337) as an agency of imaginative...

...turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moon-light or sun-set,...

...deliberately defamiliarized doctrines for political and religious effects, not only for the purpose of "giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination," as Coleridge said in another context, but to "rouze the faculties to act." Like all reformers, he saw...

...as Coleridge would generalize it in Biographia Literaria's account of the origin of Lyrical Ballads: "the power of giving the interest of novelty by the...to represent the practicability of combining both [truth to nature and novelty). These are the poetry of nature."91 Since they were not painters or watercolorists,...

...poetry, reported at the beginning of Chapter 14: "the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and...of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination." 21 These cardinal points are related to the distinction Coleridge draws between...