Biographia Literaria

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The Floating Press, May 1, 2009 - Philosophy - 406 pages
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known critical idea of "willing suspension of disbelief."

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Chapter XIV
238
Chapter XV
249
Chapter XVI
259
Chapter XVII
265
Chapter XVIII
282
Chapter XIX
314
Chapter XX
326
Chapter XXI
337

Chapter IX
109
Chapter X
125
Chapter XI
177
Chapter XII
188
Chapter XIII
227
Chapter XXII
350
Chapter XXIII
459
Chapter XXIV
496
Endnotes
511
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