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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

W. Gowans, 1852 - 804 pages

Contents

• LTRODUCTION: 16
• 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 lay of AssociationIts history traced from Aris: 211
• That Hartleys system as far as it differs from that: 230
• Of the necessary consequences of the Hartleian Theory: 237
• The system of Dualism introduced by Des CartesRo: 245
• 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
• 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
• Continuation Concerning the real object which it: 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: 647
• 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
• Editors: Henry Nelson Coleridge, Sara Coleridge Coleridge
• Publisher: W. Gowans, 1852
• Original from: UC Southern Regional Library Facility
• Digitized: Jan 29, 2016
• Length: 804 pages