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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But the fundamental point that Coleridge is making, in answer, is that the essence
of style, of language, is its character in and as Gestalt, totality of form and impact.
It is the order of the words, the "surview of mind" arranging them, that ...
But the fundamental point that Coleridge is making, in answer, is that the essence
of style, of language, is its character in and as Gestalt, totality of form and impact.
It is the order of the words, the "surview of mind" arranging them, that ...
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... nearest of all modern writers to Shakespear and Milton; and yet in a kind
perfectly unborrowed and his own".2 Interspersed throughout these chapters are
observations that sum up fifty to seventy years of psychological insight into style.
... nearest of all modern writers to Shakespear and Milton; and yet in a kind
perfectly unborrowed and his own".2 Interspersed throughout these chapters are
observations that sum up fifty to seventy years of psychological insight into style.
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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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