Biographia literaria

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Subjects: Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Aesthetics, English poetry, Nonfiction, Poetry 0, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Collections, Criticism, History and criticism, English literature, history and criticism, Poetry, Criticism 0, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century, Philosophy, Theory

Description: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse; loosely structured and non-linear, the work is meditative and contains numerous philosophical essays. Initially criticized as the product of Coleridge's opiate-driven descent into illness, more recent critics have given the work far more credit and recognition. The book is the origin of the well-known critical idea of "willing suspension of disbelief."