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BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA.

BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA;

OR,

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MY LITERARY LIFE

AND OPINIONS;

AND

TWO LAY SERMONS;

I. THE STATESMAN'S MANUAL.

II.-BLESSED ARE YE THAT SOW BESIDE ALL WATERS.

BY.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

LONDON:

BELL AND DALDY, 6, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN,
AND 186, FLEET STREET.

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This Volume is a verbatim reprint of the original editions of Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria” (1817); "The Statesman's Manual," a Lay Sermon (1816); and "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters," a Lay Sermon (1817). These editions have

long been out of print, and are now quite scarce.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET

AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS.

Biographia Literaria.

CHAPTER I.

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The motives of the present work-Reception of the author's first publication-The dis-

cipline of his taste at school-The effect of contemporary writers on youthful

minds-Bowles's Sonnets-Comparison between the poets before and since Pope® 1

CHAPTER II.

Supposed irritability of men of genius-Brought to the test of facts-Causes and occa-

sions of the charge-Its injustice

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CHAPTER III.

The author's obligations to critics, and the probable occasion-Principles of modern

criticism-Mr. Southey's works and character

CHAPTER IV.

The Lyrical Ballads with the preface-Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems-On fancy and

imagination-The investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts

CHAPTER V.

On the law of association-Its history traced from Aristotle to Hartley

CHAPTER VI.

That Hartley's system, as far as it differs from that of Aristotle, is neither tenable in

theory nor founded in facts

CHAPTER VII.

of the necessary consequences of the Hartleian theory-Of the original mistake or equi-

vocation which procured admission for the theory-Memoria Technica

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