...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, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes" (Biographia 1: 9). Coleridge's word is not "transition" but "logic," and the reader may wonder whether...

...compositions' (Lerters, III:361, II:811); and in poetry which follows this self-justifying aesthetic logic, 'there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word' (Biographia, I:9). 19 In Paradise Lost, 'The connexion of the sentences and the position of the words...

...censure." Drilled in the rigorous logic of poems, Coleridge learned that "in the truly great poets . . . there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word." Diction fell under the purview of a hanging judge: In our own English compositions ... he showed no...

...seemingly, that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science ; and moife difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and...reason assignable, not only for every word, but for tke position of every word ; and I well remember that, availing himself of the synonymes to the Homer...

...written, approvingly quoting an old teacher, a logic that is "as severe as that of science," but far "more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes" (I: 4). The description that follows of Reverend James Bowyer's teachings no doubt reminds us of the...

...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, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes" (BL, I, 9). At the same time Boyer's method of teaching composition impressed on Coleridge the organic...

...è estremamente strutturata: [poetry has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because 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...

...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,...

...Wordsworthian 'overflow' sublimates. Poetry has a "logic of its own, as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive causes," the latter once again exposing the fugitive unconscious of poetry (BL 1:23,9) 38. Cited from Jonathan...