Biographia Literaria

An 1817 autobiographical and philosophical work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge mixing memoir with literary criticism, discussing poetry, imagination, Wordsworth's poetics, and philosophical influences from Aristotle to Kant and Schelling.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Literary theory and the craft of writing›Criticism, taste, and aesthetics

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Bibliophiles›Other Non-Fiction›Essays and criticism›Literary theory and the craft of writing›Criticism, taste, and aesthetics