The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. The sudden charm, which accidents of light and shade, which moonlight or sunset diffused over a known and familiar landscape, appeared to represent the practicability of combining both. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination. XIV), gave an account of the occasion of the poem: "During the first year that Mr. Almost twenty years later Coleridge, in his Biographia Literaria (chap. 1] First published in Lyrical Ballads, 1798.
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