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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... poet , one of the greatest poets of the last three centuries . Yet no work of even remotely comparable importance is ad- mittedly so uneven , or - to use a word I. A. Richards applied to Coleridge as a poet - so " vulnerable ...
... poet , one of the greatest poets of the last three centuries . Yet no work of even remotely comparable importance is ad- mittedly so uneven , or - to use a word I. A. Richards applied to Coleridge as a poet - so " vulnerable ...
Page xlvii
... poet's 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 ...
... poet's 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 ...
Page lxviii
... poet he had long believed that critical observations must rest squarely on " philosophical prin- ciples " . In fact ... poet . The terse and elegant formula of Chapter 15 , " No man was ever yet a great poet , without being at the same ...
... poet he had long believed that critical observations must rest squarely on " philosophical prin- ciples " . In fact ... poet . The terse and elegant formula of Chapter 15 , " No man was ever yet a great poet , without being at the same ...
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... poetic imagination differs " only in degree " from the primary . And in the next chapter ( 14 ) he re - emphasises the instigation and control of the will , saying that , in the poet , " this power " is " first put in action by the will ...
... poetic imagination differs " only in degree " from the primary . And in the next chapter ( 14 ) he re - emphasises the instigation and control of the will , saying that , in the poet , " this power " is " first put in action by the will ...
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... poet's secondary imagination permits him to be , in the old cliché ( popular during the Renaissance ) , " a second ... poetic genius , which is differenced from the highest perfection of talent , not by degree but by kind " .2 And ...
... poet's secondary imagination permits him to be , in the old cliché ( popular during the Renaissance ) , " a second ... poetic genius , which is differenced from the highest perfection of talent , not by degree but by kind " .2 And ...
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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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