 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 1900 - 184 pages
...all its defects and unevenness, a poem of exceptional power and import. "Seldom, if ever," he wrote, "was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced." In his twenty-fourth year, he met Wordsworth personally.i To Coleridge's removal to Nether Stowey in... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1901 - 224 pages
...at Cambridge that he first met with these poems, of which he says in the Biographia Literaria that " seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced ;" and the effect produced by this volume was steadily enhanced by further acquaintance both with the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1904 - 994 pages
...became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication, entitled ' Descriptive Sketches ; ' and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
 | William Wordsworth - England - 1907 - 546 pages
...This man was Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and later, when he himself commanded the public ear, he wrote " Seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced." The following Summer (1793) was also important for his poetry, for it was then that he first visited... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 388 pages
...with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches " ; and seldom, if ever, was 20 the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1908 - 296 pages
...Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 490 pages
...Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publications, entitled Descriptive Sketches; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more ev1dently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...young man who had entered .Cambridge the same year Wordsworth left it. Of it long afterward he wrote: "Seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original...above the literary horizon more evidently announced." The opinion was important, for the young man was Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Wordsworth had now attained... | |
 | English language - 1917 - 220 pages
...more powerful. With the Descriptive Sketches it is otherwise. 'Seldom, if ever,' wrote Coleridge,1 'was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
 | Marjorie Latta Barstow Greenbie - 1917 - 222 pages
...more powerful. With the Descriptive Sketches it is otherwise. 'Seldom, if ever,' wrote Coleridge,1 'was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced. In the form, style, and manner of the whole poem, and in the structure of the particular lines and... | |
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During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently... 
