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  The Design of 'Biographia Literaria' | Catherine M. Wallace Online
Biographia Literaria is a major document in Western literary inquiry, but its intricacies have baffled and infuriated generations of readers.
Her painstaking analysis of the Biographia's organizing structure distinguishes with great subtlety between the daring conception and the often inept execution of Coleridge's idea of critical discourse.
Biographia Literaria is, alas, usually read only in parts except by the most determined; and so I allowed a certain pragmatism to prevail in my own design.
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 10D. Romanticism and the Transformation of the 'New'
Kathleen Wheeler's study, Sources, Processes and Methods in Coleridge's Biographia Literaria (Cambridge University Press 1980), in which she argues that the Biographia is a massively sustained exercise in Romantic Irony, has probably been the most influential attempt to argue for its intellectual unity.
That Coleridge has Common Sense philosophy in his sights in the Biographia Literaria is shown by various references to "common sense" (an easily recognised shibboleth of these philosophers' intuitionist mode of argument, from which they derive their name).
The basic criticism of Jeffrey and the Edinburgh Reviewers (and by extension, of Common Sense philosophy itself) that runs through the Biographia Literaria, is that to appeal to "common sense" as a standard of intellectual judgement is to assume that novelty in poetry (or in any other field) must always be intellectually illegitimate.
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 Coleridge on Imagination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Biographia Literaria was written in 1815 and first published in July of 1817, when Coleridge was 44.
In a section entitled "The Pure Concepts of the Understanding, or Categories," Kant claims that the imagination is that faculty of mind which creates experience by combining, or synthesizing the discrete elements of sensuous data.
Coleridge introduces the concept of "I AM" in Chapter 12 of the Biographia Literaria, where he argues—following Kant, Fichte, and Schelling—that the proposition that things exist outside the self actually presupposes the existence of a self (the "I am").
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 Biographia Literaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which he published in 1817.
Being fluent in German, Coleridge was one of the first major English literary figures to translate and discuss Schelling, in particular.
Early reactions were that it was a demonstration of Coleridge's opiate-driven decline into ill health.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria v. 7 (Collected Works of Samuel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Amazon.co.uk: The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria v.
Biographia Literaria has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature.
Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the psychology of art.
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 ColeridgeLecture
Biographia Literaria, which includes accounts of his literary life and also critical essays, appeared in 1817; its borrowings from German idealist philosophers borders, at times, on plagiarism.
This, and his inability to finish projects, make Coleridge a controversial figure, but he was unquestionably a major literary influence in his day and, at his best, a great poet.
The central argument Coleridge conducts with Wordsworth is most crucial in stanza IV, where the origin of joy is located only in the human viewer and not in the external scene.
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 Whitehead and German Idealism: A Poetic Heritage
According to the Biographia Literaria he read Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Judgment, the Metaphysical Elements of Natural Philosophy, and Religion within the Bounds of Pure Reason.
In the Biographia Literaria he mentions his ‘Wissenschaftslehre’ or, as he calls it, the Lore of Ultimate Science.
It would be but a mere act of justice to myself, were I to warn my future readers, that an identity of thought, or even similarity of phrase, will not be at all times a certain proof that the passage has been borrowed from Schelling.
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 PCC - Philosophy, Cosmology & Consciousness News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I shall first give a short explanation of Coleridge's theory of the primary and secondary imagination, and the distinction between imagination and fancy that he briefly, yet carefully, postulates in Chapter XIII of his Biographia Literaria.
In the Biographia Literaria, the primary imagination is described in one sentence, in which Coleridge points to the divine origins of human perception:
The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
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 TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 8. Biographia Literaria: Just a Story. Wendy Lesser.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The movie, by tipping the balance of power in Iris's favor, does her a deep disservice, and it does us an injury, too, by depriving this real-life fairy tale of the delicate tragic balance John worked so hard to preserve.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Prospect, Inc. Preferred Citation: Wendy Lesser, "Biographia Literaria: Just a Story," The American Prospect vol.
This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author.
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 "And stormily they have all retreated into hearing"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
With a more ample extension of ideas in the first volumes, the ideas receive a more synthetic shape in the last volumes, the author detaching himself from expressive extension, choosing synthesis and concentration in the last volume.
The characterization of such a vision of poetry, the lyrical attitude to the idea, its extension and materialization, can be illustrated by the following quotation from Biographia Literaria, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which captures the attitude to objects and ideas, and their approach, by those who practice Great Poetry:
The men of the greatest genius, as far as we can judge from their own works or from the accounts of their contemporaries, appear to have been of calm and tranquil temper, in all that related to them- selves.
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 my favorite poem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
AUTOBIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone.
I hated dolls and I hated games, animals were not friendly and birds flew away.
If anyone was looking for me I hid behind a tree and cried out "I am an orphan." And here I am, the center of all beauty!
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 The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 7: Biographia Literaria. (Two Volume Set) by Coleridge, Samuel ...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
 Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions; And Two Lay Sermons; I.-The Statesman's Manual.
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 Teachers' Resource Web Maintained by Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D.
How does Coleridge compare the relative faults and merits of poets before his time and of his contemporaries?
What are some of the “opposite or discordant qualities” balanced or reconciled by imagination?
Coleridge has his disagreements with Wordsworth about poetic language.
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 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003023741   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
The Developing Self: Biographia Literaria and Apologia pro Vita sua 4.
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 Religion, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, Biographia literaria, Conscience Religious aspects Christianity History of doctrines 19th century, Christianity and literature Great Britain History 19th century, Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890, Apologia pro vita sua, Christian literature, English History and critcism, Conscience in literature
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 Coleridge, from Biographia literaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
When I read the Biographia literaria I was wondering why Coleridge keeps talking about Wordsworth specifically, Is he a bad poet or what?
Then I found that Coleridge and Wordsworth collaborated with each other in writing the Lyrical Ballads.
So, it seems to me that it is a natural gift that does not depend on the degree of education basically.
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 Sources, Processes and Methods in Coleridge's 'Biographia Literaria' - Price Comparison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 FreeBooksToRead.com - Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 700   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 87104394
Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 87104394
Publisher description for Biographia literaria, or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions / Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; edited by James Engell and W. Jackson Bate.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
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 Squashed Writers - Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - condensed and abridged
Squashed Writers - Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - condensed and abridged
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Add the gleam, The light that never was on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.
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