Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his critical treatise Biographia Literaria (1817).
Coleridge used the term to refer to the “poetic faith” of a reader in accepting imaginary elements in a literary work.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge coined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his critical treatise Biographia Literaria (1817).
Coleridge used the term to refer to the “poetic faith” of a reader in accepting imaginary elements in a literary work.