‘Modern Poetry characterized by the Poets ANXIETY to be always striking – The same march in the Greek & Latin Poets/Claudian, who had powers to have been any thing – observe in him the anxious craving Vanity! every Line, nay, every word stops, looks full in your face, & asks & begs for Praise. A Chinese Painting no distances no perspective/all in the fore-ground/and this is all Vanity. I am pleased that when a mere Stripling I had formed the opinion, that true Taste, was Virtue – & that bad writing was bad feeling.’
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’. Volume II. 1804 – 1808. Text. Lemma 2728.
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