Biographia Literaria: Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life & Opinions

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Biographia Literaria has emerged over the last century as a supreme work of literary criticism and one of the classics of English literature. Into this volume poured 20 years of speculation about the criticism and uses of poetry and about the psychology of art. Following the text of the 1817 edition, the editors offer the first completely annotated edition of the highly allusive work.


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Intended "to supply at once the places of a review, newspaper, and annual register", The Watchman contained poems, essays, and fooleries by Coleridge and other contributors. Each number also contained news of foreign and domestic occurrences (usually culled from the London daily press) and reports of debates in Parliament, and to several numbers Coleridge contributed reviews of recent publications. In this edition of The Watchman the editor has in his notes elucidated the background, political and literary, and traced almost every item to its original source - friend, correspondent, newspaper, journal, book, or Coleridge himself.


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