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
Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed — Preface to
the second edition — The ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony —
Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia 5 Chapter 15. The
specific ...
Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed — Preface to
the second edition — The ensuing controversy, its causes and acrimony —
Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry with scholia 5 Chapter 15. The
specific ...
Page lxxvi
... imitation might then be considered "the beautiful". Coleridge took for granted
the opposition of the self ("spirit" or "self-consciousness") and of nature (the
objective world). The self could be an object, but only to itself in the original
proposition, ...
... imitation might then be considered "the beautiful". Coleridge took for granted
the opposition of the self ("spirit" or "self-consciousness") and of nature (the
objective world). The self could be an object, but only to itself in the original
proposition, ...
Page lxxxix
... mind" what we do associate, the objects and process of nature, which
themselves are products of "the eternal act of creation in the infinite I A M". The bit
-by-bit pattern of sensory information becomes a comprehension of the creation
of God.
... mind" what we do associate, the objects and process of nature, which
themselves are products of "the eternal act of creation in the infinite I A M". The bit
-by-bit pattern of sensory information becomes a comprehension of the creation
of God.
Page xciv
... mind and nature, between the mind and its own "inner nature", results in a
confrontation with the creative force of the cosmos. In looking at objects of Nature
while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dimglimmering thro' the dewy window-
pane, ...
... mind and nature, between the mind and its own "inner nature", results in a
confrontation with the creative force of the cosmos. In looking at objects of Nature
while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dimglimmering thro' the dewy window-
pane, ...
Page xcvii
... was especially an object of rationalistic distrust. It became associated with
chimeras, unrealistic fantasies. Meanwhile British psychological empiricism, with
its potential distrust of all except the sensory, increasingly found in "imagination"
a ...
... was especially an object of rationalistic distrust. It became associated with
chimeras, unrealistic fantasies. Meanwhile British psychological empiricism, with
its potential distrust of all except the sensory, increasingly found in "imagination"
a ...
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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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