Biographia Literaria Or, Biographical Sketches Of My Literary Life And Opinions by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Biographical Sketches Of My Literary Life And Opinions
A richly argumentative hybrid of memoir and criticism that recounts the author’s intellectual development while laying out a sustained theory of poetry and imagination: it distinguishes primary and secondary imagination from mere fancy, explores the creative mind and principles of poetic genius, and mounts detailed readings and critiques of contemporary poets and canonical figures such as Shakespeare and Milton; threaded through these theoretical sections are autobiographical sketches, philosophical reflections on language and mind, and polemics against prevailing critical practice, all aimed at redefining the aims and methods of poetic criticism.
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- 1817
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