Editing Defamiliarization (section)

=== In Romantic poetry ===
The technique appears in English Romantic poetry, particularly in the poetry of [[Wordsworth]], and was defined in the following way by [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], in his ''[[Biographia Literaria]]'': "To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar ... this is the character and privilege of genius."

Preceding Coleridge's formulation is that of the German Romantic poet and philosopher [[Novalis]]: "The art of estranging in a given way, making a subject strange and yet familiar and alluring, that is Romantic poetics."<ref>''Pollen And Fragments'' (1798) (Arthur Versluis translation, 1989)</ref>