IT has been my lot to have had my name introduced, both in conversation and in print, more frequently than I find it easy to explain, whether I consider the fewness, unimportance, and limited circulation of my writings, or the retirement and distance in which I have lived, both from the literary and political world.
An edition of Biographia literaria
(1817)
Biographia literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known critical idea of "willing suspension of disbelief."
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Criticism, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Aesthetics, Theory, History and criticism, Poetry 0, Criticism 0, English poetry, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Nonfiction, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Collections, English literature, history and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, Théorie, Critique, Lyrical ballads (Wordsworth, William), Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834, English poetry, history and criticism, 18th centuryPlaces
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I. Introduction (biographical sketch.) Biographia literaria.
II. Biographia literaria (cont.) Aesthetical essays: On the principles of genial criticism concerning the fine arts. Fragment of an essay on taste. Fragment of an essay on beauty. On poesy or art.
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With reproductions of original t.-p.: Biographia literaria; or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions ... London .. 1817.
"The aim of the present editon of Coleridge's Biographia literaria is to furnish an accurate reprint of the edition of 1817, with such additional matter as may contribute to a fuller understanding of the text."--Pref.
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