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.
An edition of Biographia literaria
(1817)
Biographia literaria
or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions. Edited with an introd. by George Watson
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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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Criticism, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Aesthetics, Theory, History and criticism, Poetry 0, Criticism 0, English poetry, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, Nonfiction, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Collections, English literature, history and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Poésie anglaise, Histoire et critique, Théorie, Critique, Lyrical ballads (Wordsworth, William), Coleridge, samuel taylor, 1772-1834, English poetry, history and criticism, 18th centuryPlaces
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