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BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

CONTENTS DETAILED CONTENTS BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA CHAPTER I Motives to the present work—Reception of the Author's first publication—Discipline of his taste at school—Effect of contemporary writers on & minds—Bowles's Sonnets—Comparison between the poets before and since Pope. CHAPTER II Supposed irritability of men of genius brought to the test of facts—Causes and occasions of the charge—Its injustice. CHAPTER III The Author's obligations to critics, and the probable occasion—Principles of modern criticism—Mr. Southey's works and character. CHAPTER IV The Lyrical Ballads with the Preface—Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems—On fancy and imagination—The investigation of the distinction important to the Fine Arts.