Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Part 1A fully annotated edition of Coleridge's famous work, in which he argues that philosophy is the basis of criticism, advances his own critical theories and views on poetry and literature, and provides insight into his own life and creative history. |
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Page ix
... Genius - Brought to the test of Facts - Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice Chapter 3. The author's obligations to critics , and the probable occasion - Principles of modern criticism - Mr . Southey's works and character ...
... Genius - Brought to the test of Facts - Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice Chapter 3. The author's obligations to critics , and the probable occasion - Principles of modern criticism - Mr . Southey's works and character ...
Page xlii
... genius of intellectual Germany in the period from about 1760 to 1830. In all of these approaches , no one has ever been displeased to discover that , for whatever he is discussing or urging , he can find a precedent in Coleridge : a ...
... genius of intellectual Germany in the period from about 1760 to 1830. In all of these approaches , no one has ever been displeased to discover that , for whatever he is discussing or urging , he can find a precedent in Coleridge : a ...
Page xliii
... genius of the work may be occasionally deflected by the commonplace , even at moments by the bathetic , there are entire chapters in which Coleridge can lose himself in his subject , and in doing so lifts us to a plane that leaves us ...
... genius of the work may be occasionally deflected by the commonplace , even at moments by the bathetic , there are entire chapters in which Coleridge can lose himself in his subject , and in doing so lifts us to a plane that leaves us ...
Page xlvii
... genius to deem myself other than a very humble poet ; but in the very possession of the idea , I know myself so far a poet as to feel assured that I can understand and interpret a poem in the spirit of poetry . . . . Like the ostrich ...
... genius to deem myself other than a very humble poet ; but in the very possession of the idea , I know myself so far a poet as to feel assured that I can understand and interpret a poem in the spirit of poetry . . . . Like the ostrich ...
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... genius " , he is bringing to a culmination and putting into short form scores of similar and overlapping functions of the imagination made by earlier thinkers.1 His con- cepts are not original in their basic scheme ( although no one ...
... genius " , he is bringing to a culmination and putting into short form scores of similar and overlapping functions of the imagination made by earlier thinkers.1 His con- cepts are not original in their basic scheme ( although no one ...
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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions No preview available - 2020 |
Biographia Literaria Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2019 |
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