Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Part 1Biographia Literaria has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the psychology of art. Following the text of the 1817 edition, the editors offer the first completely annotated edition of the highly allusive work. |
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Page ix
The motives of the present work — Reception of the Author's first publication —
The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on
youthful minds — Bowles's sonnets — Comparison between the Poets before
and ...
The motives of the present work — Reception of the Author's first publication —
The discipline of his taste at school — The effect of contemporary writers on
youthful minds — Bowles's sonnets — Comparison between the Poets before
and ...
Page xcix
He mentions first the Latin and the latinised Greek, imaginatio and phantasia,
and himself points out this distinction and its "reversed" effect in Ludovico Vives.1
The distinction runs back at least to Boethius and Macrobius. It can be found in ...
He mentions first the Latin and the latinised Greek, imaginatio and phantasia,
and himself points out this distinction and its "reversed" effect in Ludovico Vives.1
The distinction runs back at least to Boethius and Macrobius. It can be found in ...
Page cv
3 For Coleridge the essential flaw in Wordsworth's theory — the disagreement he
had resolved back in 1802 to "get to the bottom of" — is that Wordsworth is
regarding the language of poetry as, in effect, a "copy", a reproduction of ordinary
...
3 For Coleridge the essential flaw in Wordsworth's theory — the disagreement he
had resolved back in 1802 to "get to the bottom of" — is that Wordsworth is
regarding the language of poetry as, in effect, a "copy", a reproduction of ordinary
...
Page cvi
... as we consider the work more closely, begin to note difference. Hence the
disappointment felt as we move from unity (or rather a spurious form of unity) or
from "sameness" to "difference". "Imitation", both in itself and in its effect on the
mind, ...
... as we consider the work more closely, begin to note difference. Hence the
disappointment felt as we move from unity (or rather a spurious form of unity) or
from "sameness" to "difference". "Imitation", both in itself and in its effect on the
mind, ...
Page cxii
Whereas traditional metrics rarely went beyond the concept of metre as a form of
"uniformity and variety", Coleridge concentrated on the psychological effects of
metrical rhythm in a twofold way that, simply because it is twofold, opens the door
...
Whereas traditional metrics rarely went beyond the concept of metre as a form of
"uniformity and variety", Coleridge concentrated on the psychological effects of
metrical rhythm in a twofold way that, simply because it is twofold, opens the door
...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Part 1 Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bollingen series Collected works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks Volume 7 of Works, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Editors | James Engell, Walter Jackson Bate |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0691018618, 9780691018614 |
| Length | 409 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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