Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

American Book Exchange, 1881 - Aesthetics - 804 pages

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• Motives to the present workReception of the Authors: 141
• Supposed irritability of men of genius brought to: 163
• The Authors obligations to Critics and the probable: 179
• The Lyrical Ballads with the PrefaceMr Wordsworths: 194
• On the law of AssociationIts history traced from Aris: 211
• That Hartleys system as far as it differs from that: 230
• The system of Dualism introduced by Des CartesRe: 245
• Is Philosophy possible as a science and what are its con: 254
• A chapter of digression and anecdotes as an interlude: 279
• An affectionate exhortation to those who in early life feel: 324
• A Chapter of requests and premonitions concerning: 333
• On the Imagination or Esemplastic power: 370
• APPENDIX: 379
• Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads and the objects origi: 441
• The specific symptoms of poetic power elucidated in: 453
• Striking points of difference between the Poets of: 464
• Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr Wordsworth: 474
• Language of metrical composition why and wherein: 491
• CHAP XIX: 517
• The former subject continuedThe neutral style: 527
• Remarks on the present mode of conducting critical: 536
• The characteristic defects of Wordsworths poetry: 546
• SATYRANES LETTERS: 594
• Critique on Bertram: 649
• Conclusion: 677
• BIOGRAPHICal SupplemeNT: 691
• APPENDIX On the Poetical Picturesque: 793

Bibliographic information

• Title: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
• Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Editor: Henry Nelson Coleridge
• Publisher: American Book Exchange, 1881
• Length: 804 pages