Biographia Literaria

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Editor: Nigel Leask

Synopsis: Coleridge's "literary life and opinions [on] poetry and poetical criticism," dictated to a friend in the summer of 1815 and published in 1817, includes a critique of Wordsworth's poetic ideas, specifically on diction. Coleridge takes issue with Wordsworth's famous idea that the language of... Read More