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The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes. Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 1817
Biographia Literaria was the most important work of literary criticism of the English Romantic period, combining philosophy and literary criticism in a new way, and it was lastingly influential. This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper .
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 1817
Oct 14, 2023 · biographia literaria CHAPTER I Motives to the present work—Reception of the Author’s first publication—Discipline of his taste at school—Effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds—Bowles’s Sonnets—Comparison between the poets before and since Pope.
Symons called Biographia Literaria ‘the greatest book of criticism in English.’ . . . I. A. Richards has hailed Coleridge as a forerun-ner of the modern science of semantics. Coleridge’s ‘step across the threshold of a general theoretical study of language was of the same type as that which took Galileo into the modern world.’
Jul 1, 2004 · Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Read now or download (free!) Similar Books. Readers also downloaded… About this eBook. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 1817
Coleridge defends his and Wordsworth's collaborative project of Lyrical Ballads against Wordsworth's second edition preface that favored the language of ordinary life. He argues for the harmony of sound, meter, communication, pleasure, and emotional affect in poetry.
A classic work of literary criticism and autobiography by the English poet and philosopher. It contains his reflections on poetry, philosophy, politics, and the controversy over poetic diction, as well as his personal history and influences.
