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The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes. Its working title was 'Autobiographia Literaria'.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 1817
Biographia Literaria was the most important work of literary criticism of the English Romantic period, combining philosophy and literary criticism in a new way, and it was lastingly influential. This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper .
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 1817
14 ott 2023 · biographia literaria CHAPTER I Motives to the present work—Reception of the Author’s first publication—Discipline of his taste at school—Effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds—Bowles’s Sonnets—Comparison between the poets before and since Pope.
Symons called Biographia Literaria ‘the greatest book of criticism in English.’ . . . I. A. Richards has hailed Coleridge as a forerun-ner of the modern science of semantics. Coleridge’s ‘step across the threshold of a general theoretical study of language was of the same type as that which took Galileo into the modern world.’
21 giu 2010 · Biographia literaria by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834; Shawcross, John, b. 1871; St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919 fmo; Wordsworth Collection
28 mag 2006 · Yet, for the final result, what Arthur Symons claimed in 1906 remains true: 'The Biographia Literaria is the greatest book of criticism in English, and one of the most annoying books in any language' (BL 1906, introd., x-xi).
5 set 2023 · Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is an 1817 work of autobiography and literary criticism. Coleridge muses on the evolution of poets and writers, using writers’ predilection for...
