Biographia literaria, 1817
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Author
Publication
1971 - Scolar Press, Menston, United Kingdom
Language
English
Word Count
77,500 words, Guess
Page Count
310 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21545361M
- ISBN-100854176292
- ISBN-100854176306
- ISBN-139780854176298
- ISBN-139780854176304
Classifications
- DDC801
- LCCPR4476 A1 1971
Description
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known critical idea of "willing suspension of disbelief."
First Sentence
IT has been my lot to have had my name introduced, both in conversation and in print, more frequently than I find it easy to explain, whether I consider the fewness, unimportance, and limited circulation of my writings, or the retirement and distance in which I have lived, both from the literary and political world.
Excerpt
IT has been my lot to have had my name introduced, both in conversation and in print, more frequently than I find it easy to explain, whether I consider the fewness, unimportance, and limited circulation of my writings, or the retirement and distance in which I have lived, both from the literary and political world.
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