Round 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 (10[1])in a work of theory that describes an “esemplastic” (10[1])power. (10[1])This (10[1])writer, whom Keats claimed lacked negative capability, (10[1]-5[1])placed poetic creation in (10[1])“secondary” imagination and coined (10[1])the phrase “willing suspension (10[2])of disbelief.” (10[2])This writer’s Biographia (10[2])Literaria grapples with a (10[1])preface written by his literary collaborator (10[1])that asserts “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” (10[1])For 10 points, what poet worked with William Wordsworth (10[3])on (10[1])Lyrical (10[1])Ballads? ■END■ (10[1])

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