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Biographia literaria; or, Biographical sketches of my literary life and opinions

Henry Nelson Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1848 · Scanned text · Free in the US

185,109 words · about 12 h 58 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Henry Nelson Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language
English
Published
1848
Length
185,109 words · about 12 h 58 min
Sections
17 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (17)
  1. Front matter about 4 min
  2. Contents about 3 min
  3. Introduction about 4 h 17 min
  4. Chapter I about 37 min
  5. Chapter II about 26 min
  6. Chapter III about 25 min
  7. Chapter IV about 28 min
  8. Chapter V about 32 min
  9. Chapter VI about 11 min
  10. Chapter VII about 13 min
  11. Chapter VIII. I about 16 min
  12. Chapter IX about 42 min
  13. Chapter X about 1 h 13 min
  14. Chapter XI about 13 min
  15. Chapter XII about 1 h 1 min
  16. CHAPTER XIII. On the Imagination, or esemplastic power about 14 min
  17. I about 2 h 4 min
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Chap. I. Motives to the present work — ^Reception of the Author's first publication — Discipline of his taste at school— Effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds — Bowles's Sonnets — Comparison between the poets before and since Pope . . 141

Chap. II. Supposed irritability of men of genius brought to the test of facts — Causes and occasions of the charge — Its injustice . 163

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