Biographia Literaria

Name: Biographia Literaria
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
ISBN: 9781911495192

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Series: Timeless Classics
Language: English
Length: 368 pages
ISBN: 9781911495192
Published: 27 June 2016
Imprint: Urban Romantics

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Biographia Literaria or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, is an autobiography in discourse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The work was originally intended as a mere preface to a collected volume of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry. The work grew to a literary autobiography, including, together with many facts concerning his education and studies and his early literary adventures, an extended criticism of William Wordsworth's theory of poetry.

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb, Robert Southey, and Charles Lloyd.

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