サミュエル・テイラー・コールリッジの1817年のBiographia Literaria(英語版)より[14]: ... my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic, yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
^Michael Tomko, Politics, Performance, and Coleridge's "Suspension of Disbelief." Victorian Studies,Vol. 49, No. 2, Papers and Responses from the Fourth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Held Jointly with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism Annual Meeting (Winter, 2007), pp. 241-249 Published by: Indiana University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4626281