Biographia Literaria (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- First Published: 1817
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Imagination, Drama or dramatists, Life, philosophy of, Romanticism, Intellect, Literary criticism
Critical Evaluation:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria begins as an account of the major influences on the development of the author’s philosophy and literary technique, but the total effect of the work is considerably less coherent than this plan would indicate. As he progressed, Coleridge apparently altered his purpose, and he discussed at considerable length intellectual problems of special interest to him and gave some of his standards of literary criticism, with comments on specific works. In his opening paragraph, he speaks of his work as...
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