Biographia literaria

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."

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Other Editions

• Biographia literaria: or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions, and Two lay sermons, 1. The statesman's manual, 2. Blessed are ye that sow beside all watersG. Bell1894-01-01
• Biographia literaria, or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinionsPublished by Kirk and Mercein, No.22 Wall-street1817-01-01
• Biographia literariaAmerican Book Exchange1881-01-01
• Biographia literariaG. Bell1894-01-01
• Biographia literaria, or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinionsGeorge Bell & Sons1903-01-01
• Biographia literariaG. Bell1905-01-01