Biographia LiterariaSamuel 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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Page 27
... imaginative power, and a consequent necessity of reliance on the immediate impressions of the senses, do, we know well, render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism. Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth ...
... imaginative power, and a consequent necessity of reliance on the immediate impressions of the senses, do, we know well, render the mind liable to superstition and fanaticism. Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth ...
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... imagination the ever-varying form; the latter must impress their preconceptions on the world without, in order to present them back to their own view with the satisfying degree of clearness, distinctness, and individuality. These in ...
... imagination the ever-varying form; the latter must impress their preconceptions on the world without, in order to present them back to their own view with the satisfying degree of clearness, distinctness, and individuality. These in ...
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... imagination, will acquire for a man the name of a great genius; though even that analogon of genius, which, in certain states of society, may even render his writings more popular than the absolute reality could have done, would be ...
... imagination, will acquire for a man the name of a great genius; though even that analogon of genius, which, in certain states of society, may even render his writings more popular than the absolute reality could have done, would be ...
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... imagination transferred to the future biographer the duty of contrasting Southey's fixed and well-earned fame, with the abuse and indefatigable hostility of his anonymous critics from his early youth to his ripest manhood. But I cannot ...
... imagination transferred to the future biographer the duty of contrasting Southey's fixed and well-earned fame, with the abuse and indefatigable hostility of his anonymous critics from his early youth to his ripest manhood. But I cannot ...
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... imagination; publicly have his talents been depreciated, his principles denounced; as publicly do I therefore, who have known him intimately, deem it my duty to leave recorded, that it is Southey's almost unexampled felicity, to possess ...
... imagination; publicly have his talents been depreciated, his principles denounced; as publicly do I therefore, who have known him intimately, deem it my duty to leave recorded, that it is Southey's almost unexampled felicity, to possess ...
Contents
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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 |
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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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admiration answer appear association attempt attention beauty become believe called cause character common composition concerning connection consequence consists continued conversation criticism direction distinct effect English equally excellence excitement existence express fact fancy feelings former genius German give greater ground hand heart honour human idea images imagination immediate important impression individual instance intelligible interest judgment kind knowledge language latter learned least less light lines living look meaning mere mind moral nature never notions object observed once opinions original particular pass passage perhaps person philosopher pleasure poem poet poetic poetry possess possible present principles produced prose reader reason remain result seemed sense speak spirit style supposed things thought true truth understanding whole Wordsworth's writer