He also felt that an act of faith was analogous to an act of a poet because both bring entire soul of man into realm of activity (Barth, Symbolic, 12-13). ... It was praised by Lord Byron, however, and actually defended by Coleridge's good friend Morgan, "It is not on the story itself but on the management and arrangement of it. It is by the fitness of the manners, the death of the passions, the definiteness and consistency of the characters, the beauty and liveliness of the descriptions, and the force and truth of moral sentiments that the true poet is known. ...

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