Biographia Literaria

Biographia Literaria

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, english poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772-1834)


This ebook presents «Biographia Literaria», from Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.


Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Motto

- Motives To The Present Work

- Supposed Irritability Of Men Of Genius Brought To The Test Of Facts

- The Author's Obligations To Critics, And The Probable Occasion

- The Lyrical Ballads With The Preface

- On The Law Of Association

- That Hartley's System

- Of The Necessary Consequences Of The Hartleian Theory

- The System Of Dualism Introduced By Des Cartes

- Is Philosophy Possible As A Science, And What Are Its Conditions

- A Chapter Of Digression And Anecdotes

- An Affectionate Exhortation

- A Chapter Of Requests And Premonitions Concerning The Perusal

- On The Imagination

- Occasion Of The Lyrical Ballads, And The Objects Originally Proposed

- Occasion Of The Lyrical Ballads, And The Objects Originally Proposed

- Striking Points Of Difference Between The Poets Of The Present Age And Those Of The Fifteenth And Sixteenth Centuries

- Examination Of The Tenets Peculiar To Mr. Wordsworth

- Language Of Metrical Composition, Why And Wherein Essentially Different From That Of Prose

- Concerning The Real Object Which, It Is Probable, Mr. Wordsworth

- The Former Subject Continued

- Remarks On The Present Mode Of Conducting Critical Journals

- The Characteristic Defects Of Wordsworth's Poetry

- Quid Quod Praefatione Praemunierim Libellum

- Conclusion

- Footnotes