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 xx
In such instances, we have cited both Coleridge's edition and the standard
modern edition, provided its text in the relevant passage is the same as that used
or probably used by Coleridge. Coleridge manuscripts, where quoted, are printed
...
In such instances, we have cited both Coleridge's edition and the standard
modern edition, provided its text in the relevant passage is the same as that used
or probably used by Coleridge. Coleridge manuscripts, where quoted, are printed
...
Page xlvii
It ended with Wordsworth asking the printer to omit the poem and to cancel a
crucial passage of the Preface that spoke of the essential agreement of the two
men and turn it into a mere list of the poems included from Coleridge.1 Although
the ...
It ended with Wordsworth asking the printer to omit the poem and to cancel a
crucial passage of the Preface that spoke of the essential agreement of the two
men and turn it into a mere list of the poems included from Coleridge.1 Although
the ...
Page xcvi
In the passage Coleridge cites and translates from the Enneads, the key is
intuition, and Coleridge thinks of it as a "sacred power". Our intuitions, our
philosophic imaginations, meet the divine on a middle ground where the divine
chooses to ...
In the passage Coleridge cites and translates from the Enneads, the key is
intuition, and Coleridge thinks of it as a "sacred power". Our intuitions, our
philosophic imaginations, meet the divine on a middle ground where the divine
chooses to ...
Page xcvii
Indications that, in England, "imagination" was becoming the more
comprehensive and serious word are found in Dryden's letter to Sir Robert
Howard prefatory to Annus Mirabilis (1667), Shaftesbury's Characteristics (1711)
— in a passage ...
Indications that, in England, "imagination" was becoming the more
comprehensive and serious word are found in Dryden's letter to Sir Robert
Howard prefatory to Annus Mirabilis (1667), Shaftesbury's Characteristics (1711)
— in a passage ...
Page cxv
General charges of plagiarism are made, with a few passages cited as "examples
" or with simple page numbers. When we face the issue of plagiarism, at least in
an important work, there is no substitute for presenting parallel passages in full.
General charges of plagiarism are made, with a few passages cited as "examples
" or with simple page numbers. When we face the issue of plagiarism, at least in
an important work, there is no substitute for presenting parallel passages in full.
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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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