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 xi
... human diction - The best parts of language the product of philosophers , not clowns or shepherds - Poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of ...
... human diction - The best parts of language the product of philosophers , not clowns or shepherds - Poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life , yea , incomparably more so than that of ...
Page xlii
... human as intellectual ) in the transition still taking place from the age of Yeats , Pound , Joyce , and Eliot to the " post - modern " . A more formidable test of the vitality of the book is the fascina- tion it has continued to hold ...
... human as intellectual ) in the transition still taking place from the age of Yeats , Pound , Joyce , and Eliot to the " post - modern " . A more formidable test of the vitality of the book is the fascina- tion it has continued to hold ...
Page xliii
... human being , but especially in the critical period from twenty - nine to forty - three . Moreover , the last seven of these years had been an especially painful time . As he now tried to pull himself above the surface , his brilliance ...
... human being , but especially in the critical period from twenty - nine to forty - three . Moreover , the last seven of these years had been an especially painful time . As he now tried to pull himself above the surface , his brilliance ...
Page lxxii
... human psyche with the classical values , exemplified above all by Plato , of permanence and ultimate significance . What gave him the immediate confidence that this was possible was his discovery of the German exploration of these ...
... human psyche with the classical values , exemplified above all by Plato , of permanence and ultimate significance . What gave him the immediate confidence that this was possible was his discovery of the German exploration of these ...
Page lxxix
... human form remaining divine even as He lived in this world , was in its own way a mythic and holy book written in symbols that explained creation , nature , God , and man in a poetic language ; so it too would be included . The list ...
... human form remaining divine even as He lived in this world , was in its own way a mythic and holy book written in symbols that explained creation , nature , God , and man in a poetic language ; so it too would be included . The list ...
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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 |
Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge No preview available - 2015 |
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annotated appears Aristotle association Bertram Biographia Biographia Literaria Cf C's Cf CN Chapter character CM CC Coleridge's common copy criticism Descartes distinction English EOT CC Essay fancy feelings Fichte flyleaf Friend CC genius German Greek Gutch human idea images imagination imitation intellectual intuition Jacobi Kant Kant's language Lects Lect Leibniz less letter lines literary Lyrical Ballads Maass means metre Milton mind moral nature object original paragraph passage passion Phil Schrift philosophy phrase Plato Plotinus poem poet poetic poetry Preface present principles prose published PW EHC quoted Ratzeburg reader reason refers remark S. T. Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Schelling Schelling's sense sentence seyn Shakespeare Sonnet Spinoza spirit style Synesius things thought tion translation truth verse vols whole William Wordsworth Wissen words Wordsworth writing WW's