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 xlviii
He would not add notes to the poems, but "a Preface of 30 pages, relative to the
principles of Poetry, which I have ever held, and in reference to myself, Mr
Southey, and Mr Wordsworth, I should think it necessary to add".1 Coleridge
needed ...
He would not add notes to the poems, but "a Preface of 30 pages, relative to the
principles of Poetry, which I have ever held, and in reference to myself, Mr
Southey, and Mr Wordsworth, I should think it necessary to add".1 Coleridge
needed ...
Page xlix
as sponsor for the poems he would send. Otherwise "I must instantly dispose of
all my Poems, fragments and all, for whatever I can get, from the first rapacious
Bookseller that will give any thing — and then try to get my Livelihood where I
can ...
as sponsor for the poems he would send. Otherwise "I must instantly dispose of
all my Poems, fragments and all, for whatever I can get, from the first rapacious
Bookseller that will give any thing — and then try to get my Livelihood where I
can ...
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Now, in this new edition of his Poems, with its new Preface, Wordsworth had
suddenly done exactly what Coleridge himself had been planning to do. At the
same time Wordsworth had relegated to the past much of what Coleridge would
have ...
Now, in this new edition of his Poems, with its new Preface, Wordsworth had
suddenly done exactly what Coleridge himself had been planning to do. At the
same time Wordsworth had relegated to the past much of what Coleridge would
have ...
Page li
Col: means it to be printed like, in all respects, Mr Wordsworth['s] last edition of
poems entitled "Poems by Wm Wordsworth ... The preface to these 2 volumes:
that preface which g«es precedes the poem, is the one which he has fixed on as
a ...
Col: means it to be printed like, in all respects, Mr Wordsworth['s] last edition of
poems entitled "Poems by Wm Wordsworth ... The preface to these 2 volumes:
that preface which g«es precedes the poem, is the one which he has fixed on as
a ...
Page lv
He had been encouraged to think that "a detailed publication of my opinions
concerning Poetry & Poets, would excite more curiosity and a more immediate
Interest than even my Poems". Hence a new and different work: Biographical
Sketches ...
He had been encouraged to think that "a detailed publication of my opinions
concerning Poetry & Poets, would excite more curiosity and a more immediate
Interest than even my Poems". Hence a new and different work: Biographical
Sketches ...
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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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