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 xix
Punctuation, capitalisation, and italics, in both the text and quotations within the
text, have been reproduced without change unless, as happens in a very few
cases, the punctuation interferes with the obvious sense of the sentence. In such
...
Punctuation, capitalisation, and italics, in both the text and quotations within the
text, have been reproduced without change unless, as happens in a very few
cases, the punctuation interferes with the obvious sense of the sentence. In such
...
Page lii
... at one of his notebooks in order to capitalise on material assembled over the
years (observations, quotations from other writers, outlines of earlier or projected
lectures and essays), or occasionally incorporating sentences from The Friend.
... at one of his notebooks in order to capitalise on material assembled over the
years (observations, quotations from other writers, outlines of earlier or projected
lectures and essays), or occasionally incorporating sentences from The Friend.
Page cxvi
Moreover, Coleridge's use of German books and his own marginalia in them was
often so fluid and intertwined — a sentence here, then two or three sentences
elsewhere — that our experience repeatedly confirmed what McFarland calls the
...
Moreover, Coleridge's use of German books and his own marginalia in them was
often so fluid and intertwined — a sentence here, then two or three sentences
elsewhere — that our experience repeatedly confirmed what McFarland calls the
...
Page cxviii
It is still in this paragraph, one sentence later, that Coleridge makes the statement
that: For readers in general, let whatever shall be found in this or any future work
of mine, that resembles, or coincides with, the doctrines of my German ...
It is still in this paragraph, one sentence later, that Coleridge makes the statement
that: For readers in general, let whatever shall be found in this or any future work
of mine, that resembles, or coincides with, the doctrines of my German ...
Page cxxii
... interpreted them all together, and they were not "clear and distinct" ideas in his
mind. (3) Schelling, Jacobi, Maass, Fichte, and to some extent Kant — but
especially Schelling — repeat themselves, often closely. Two or three sentences
in two ...
... interpreted them all together, and they were not "clear and distinct" ideas in his
mind. (3) Schelling, Jacobi, Maass, Fichte, and to some extent Kant — but
especially Schelling — repeat themselves, often closely. Two or three sentences
in two ...
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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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