Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Theory and Criticism
In chronological order:
Exerpts from the
Biographia Literaria
, 1817
Lecture on Prose Style
, 1818
Exerpts from
The Friend
, 1818 edition
By subject (includes more than the above as sources):
Blake's
Songs of Innocence and Experience
Donne's poetry - a
poetic comment
, and
exerpted from the
Biographia Literaria
Eloquence, accuracy, and bad writing
Use of first person pronoun
Good poetry
- two criteria
Johnson's prose style
On literature as a career
The poet, described in ideal perfection
Short sentences
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