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 lviii
But a distinction can be kept in mind between "excuse" and a mere explanation of
circumstances that could seduce or frighten Coleridge into acts against which the
cushions of leisure, financial security, calmer (or firmer) temperaments, ...
But a distinction can be kept in mind between "excuse" and a mere explanation of
circumstances that could seduce or frighten Coleridge into acts against which the
cushions of leisure, financial security, calmer (or firmer) temperaments, ...
Page lxiv
Having always borne in mind how inadequate he himself felt in comparison with
what the "drama" (i.e. Shakespeare) should be and do, why should he not have
treated this hollow, booming work as he did when he thought it was being given ...
Having always borne in mind how inadequate he himself felt in comparison with
what the "drama" (i.e. Shakespeare) should be and do, why should he not have
treated this hollow, booming work as he did when he thought it was being given ...
Page lxxiv
... writings of Jakob Bohme and other mystics "acted in no slight degree to
prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic
system".5 One great hope then — and no one knew better than Coleridge how
tenuous ...
... writings of Jakob Bohme and other mystics "acted in no slight degree to
prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic
system".5 One great hope then — and no one knew better than Coleridge how
tenuous ...
Page lxxvi
"The pith of my system", said Coleridge two years before he died, "is to make the
senses out of the mind — not the mind out of the senses, as Locke did." 1 The
dialectic of matter and spirit, the "polar logic" of nature and mind, objective and ...
"The pith of my system", said Coleridge two years before he died, "is to make the
senses out of the mind — not the mind out of the senses, as Locke did." 1 The
dialectic of matter and spirit, the "polar logic" of nature and mind, objective and ...
Page lxxxi
There was a natural correspondence between the mind and nature, symbolised
in art; both mind and nature (the mind itself viewed, in fact, as part of nature)
ultimately came from a primal creation. All things were seen in God, " 'in whom
we ...
There was a natural correspondence between the mind and nature, symbolised
in art; both mind and nature (the mind itself viewed, in fact, as part of nature)
ultimately came from a primal creation. All things were seen in God, " 'in whom
we ...
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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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