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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

Note 356 — Chapter I · WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE: THEIR COMPANIONS AND ADVERSARIES.

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Or, as he puts it in one of the great critical phrases of the world, “to produce that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment which constitutes poetic faith.” It derives of course from Aristotle, but the advance on the original is immense.

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