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 xi
Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth — Rustic life (above all, low
and rustic life) especially unfavorable to the formation of a human diction — The
best parts of language the product of philosophers, not clowns or shepherds ...
Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth — Rustic life (above all, low
and rustic life) especially unfavorable to the formation of a human diction — The
best parts of language the product of philosophers, not clowns or shepherds ...
Page xv
However widely the Biographia has been acknowledged as a classic and
however well known it is in parts, it still remains a difficult work, highly allusive in
places and even fragmentary, especially in the so-called "philosophical chapters"
of ...
However widely the Biographia has been acknowledged as a classic and
however well known it is in parts, it still remains a difficult work, highly allusive in
places and even fragmentary, especially in the so-called "philosophical chapters"
of ...
Page xvi
The questions of circumstances and chronology are by no means of merely
pedantic or even of psychological interest, though the psychological interest is
especially strong. The second part of the Introduction, written by James Engell, ...
The questions of circumstances and chronology are by no means of merely
pedantic or even of psychological interest, though the psychological interest is
especially strong. The second part of the Introduction, written by James Engell, ...
Page xvii
For other help we are indebted to Mrs Prudence Steiner, Dr William A. Bond, Mr
Edward Doctoroff, Miss Linda Segal, Miss Anne Macaulay, and Dr James E.
Walsh, as well as to the authorities generally of the British Library (especially for
the ...
For other help we are indebted to Mrs Prudence Steiner, Dr William A. Bond, Mr
Edward Doctoroff, Miss Linda Segal, Miss Anne Macaulay, and Dr James E.
Walsh, as well as to the authorities generally of the British Library (especially for
the ...
Page xlii
... and "psycho-biography"; the revived interest in the "theory of literature", which
turns for suggestions — as Coleridge himself did — to the Continent, especially
to the fertile genius of intellectual Germany in the period from about 1760 to 1830
.
... and "psycho-biography"; the revived interest in the "theory of literature", which
turns for suggestions — as Coleridge himself did — to the Continent, especially
to the fertile genius of intellectual Germany in the period from about 1760 to 1830
.
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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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