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
Edited with his Aesthetical essays by J. Shawcross
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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Biographia literaria, or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions
1991, J.M. Dent, C.E. Tuttle
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Biographia literaria, or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions
1983, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Princeton University Press
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Biographia literaria: Edited with his Aesthetical essays by J. Shawcross
1907, Clarendon Press
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Coleridge's principles of criticism: chapters I., III., IV., XIV.-XXII of "Biographia literaria"
1895, D. C. Heath & Co., Publishers
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
1881, American Book Exchange
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
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Biographia literaria: or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions
1817, R. Fenner
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