ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Irony, Iambic Tetrameter, Biographia Literaria
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Woodsworth cancelled both kubla khan and christabel from volume ii: he uses volume ii to immerse his poetry as pastoral. The first edition was a collaborative collection between woodsworth and. Coleridge but the second edition was changed and edited by woodsworth: reorders the poems, his name appears and coleridge is dismissed. Coleridge released biographia literaria which focused on supernatural: division of labor of romance for coleridge and realism for. In the second edition, wordsworth criticizes the popularity of outrageous stimulations and extravagant stories: second edition can be seen as a corrective of a damaged taste at the time. In biographia, coleridge attempts to evoke feelings, affections in truth even though his characters were supernatural vs. wordsworth tries to evoke them through realism: an idea of a similar aim but there is a difference in the genre. Authenticity of the emotions they would try to express: feelings give importance to action but not the other way around.
