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Biographia Literaria (1817)
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Biographia Literaria (1817)
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Source The Duncan Wu Collection
Description Coleridge's greatest prose work, Biographia Literaria, was written in three and a
half months in 1815 and is driven creatively by his desire to signal to a public
audience his rejection of Wordsworthian poetics (which he had helped formulate). The
tight deadline and the obligation to produce a two-volume work led him to plagiarize
from Kant and Schelling among others.