Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions by George Watson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1992, Paperback)
Author: George Watson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher: Tuttle Pub
Publication Date: 1992-03-01
Series: Everyman's Library (Paper)
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0460871080
ISBN-13: 9780460871082
Product ID: EPID1255780
Description: Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction. Coleridge takes iss...
Synopsis Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction. Coleridge takes issue with Wordsworth's famous idea that the language of poetry and the language of common speech should be the same. Coleridge's poetic ideas have remained widely influential, and he is considered one of the most important critics of all time.