| Front | Biographia Literaria |
|---|---|
| Back | a philosophical and autobiographical work by Coleridge in 1817 unsystematic, inexhaustibly communicative, and united to a single literary register, it is entirely lacking in the aesthetic and recapitulatory finish of conventional autobiography begins with his associations with Wordsworth and German philosopher , and philosophy from Aristotle to Hartley and the challenge and ends infrequently in medias res. important rhetorical matters are forced to queue behind passages of advice to would-be writers and detailed enumeration of the practical difficulties of publishing and editing journals his method is excitingly oblique and inspirational , the moment of insight sudden and often wonderfully incandescent its philosophical underlying is human creativity his famous definition of the creative intelligence or imagination based on German philosophers relations between subjectivity and objectivity, self and world, speculative reason and rational understanding he envisages the substitution of a dynamic and progressive aesthetic culture for the grievously divided political cultures of the revolutionary and poet revolutionary era. its second volume is mostly about Wordsworth and essays on Shakespeare and difference between prose and poetry in this volume focus will change into inner preconditions and workings of authentic imagination its influence of imagination idea and creative process is still remain |
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