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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... subject of accusation (varying from gentle to severe), defensive disregard, and
above all, for many readers, confusion. ... or translates very loosely, we add a
literal translation, after the German text, so that the reader can make comparisons
.
... subject of accusation (varying from gentle to severe), defensive disregard, and
above all, for many readers, confusion. ... or translates very loosely, we add a
literal translation, after the German text, so that the reader can make comparisons
.
Page xix
The order of the editors' footnotes follows (perhaps Coleridgian) logic; i.e. it is
assumed that when the text contains an asterisk or a dagger the reader then
turns from text to note and then goes back again. The editors' footnotes, which
are ...
The order of the editors' footnotes follows (perhaps Coleridgian) logic; i.e. it is
assumed that when the text contains an asterisk or a dagger the reader then
turns from text to note and then goes back again. The editors' footnotes, which
are ...
Page xx
Exceptions are made in the case of writers, particularly German philosophers, for
whom such editions, found only in a few libraries, are unavailable to most
readers, but for whom the standard modern editions may be readily available. In
such ...
Exceptions are made in the case of writers, particularly German philosophers, for
whom such editions, found only in a few libraries, are unavailable to most
readers, but for whom the standard modern editions may be readily available. In
such ...
Page lv
This has now become not only a sizeable Proportion of the whole, not only the
most interesting portion to a certain class, but with the exception of four or five
Pages of which due warning is given, the most entertaining to the general
Reader, ...
This has now become not only a sizeable Proportion of the whole, not only the
most interesting portion to a certain class, but with the exception of four or five
Pages of which due warning is given, the most entertaining to the general
Reader, ...
Page lvii
In view of the title of the book — "My Literary Life and Opinions" — the reader
could "accuse you of a sort of imposition on him". There may be already too much
"metaphysical disquisition" for a work of this kind: In that greater work to which
you ...
In view of the title of the book — "My Literary Life and Opinions" — the reader
could "accuse you of a sort of imposition on him". There may be already too much
"metaphysical disquisition" for a work of this kind: In that greater work to which
you ...
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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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