31 May 1830.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Contexte: The Pilgrim's Progress is composed in the lowest style of English, without slang or false grammar. If you were to polish it, you would at once destroy the reality of the vision. For works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 220 citations0 J'aime
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Citations en anglais
Samuel Taylor Coleridge livre The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
“Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.”
12 July 1827.
Table Talk (1821–1834)
Variante: Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Contexte: I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge livre The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge livre The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Aids to Reflection, "Moral and Religious Aphorisms," Aphorism 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEbwXNWXoBoC&q=%22He+who+begins+by+loving+Christianity+better+than+truth+will+proceed+by+loving+his+own+sect+or+church+better+than+Christianity+and+end+in+loving+himself+better+than+all%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1873)
“Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!”
"Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni" (1802)
“And the spring comes slowly up this way.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel
Part I
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Christabel
“Clothing the palpable and familiar
With golden exhalations of the dawn.”
The Death of Wallenstein, Act i, scene 1
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge livre Biographia Literaria
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XII
Epitaph on an Infant
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.”
20 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge livre Biographia Literaria
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. XII
“The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.”
"The Reproof and Reply" (1823); the eighth commandment is "Thou shalt not steal".
“The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dejection: An Ode
St. 1
Dejection: An Ode (1802)
10 July 1834
Table Talk (1821–1834)
“I counted two and seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.”
" Cologne http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Cologne.html" (1828)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
Kubla Khan (1797 or 1798)
"Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton" (1811–1812)
15 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)
20 August 1833
Table Talk (1821–1834)
