Packet 1: Tossup 15
I. A. Richards locates this writer’s theory of knowledge in “the coalescence of an object with a subject” in a study that deems this writer an early “semasiologist.” This writer praised the “organic regularity” of The Tempest in a series of lectures that combated Samuel Johnson’s established readings of Shakespeare. This writer paraphrased Schelling’s System of Transcendental Idealism in a work of theory that describes an “esemplastic” power. This writer, whom Keats claimed lacked negative capability, placed poetic creation in “secondary” imagination and coined the phrase “willing suspension of disbelief.” This writer’s Biographia Literaria grapples with a preface written by his literary collaborator that asserts “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” For 10 points, what poet worked with William Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads? ■END■
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