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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Literary Life

By William Christie

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
1403940665, 9781403940667
Open Library ID
OL8399714M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
827 kB (846602 bytes)
Series
Literary Lives
Pages
272\269
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This literary life of the best-loved of all the major Romantic writers uses Coleridge's own Biographia Literaria as its starting point and destination. The most sustained criticism and ambitious theory that had ever been attempted in English, the Biographia was Coleridge's major statement to an embattled literary culture in which he sought to define and defend, not just his own, but all imaginative life. This book offers a reading of Coleridge and his life in the context of that culture and the institutions that comprised it, and is a 'must-read' for any student or scholar of Coleridge.

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