Biographia Literaria, or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Summary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biographia Literaria, or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Summary

Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the book that Coleridge wanted to write for a long time, examining the relationships between literature and philosophy. The book began as a conversation between Coleridge and his neighbor, William Wordsworth, although the book did not appear for another seventeen years. Coleridge provided the ideas for the Preface to the second edition of Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and this then was developed into Biographia Literaria...

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