{"product_id":"biographia-literaria","title":"Biographia Literaria","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when a poet turns his searching eye on poetry, friendship, and the workings of his own mind?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge blends memories of his life with literary criticism and philosophy. He moves from school days under James Bowyer to arguments about how the mind makes meaning. His aim is personal and demanding: to show how his opinions take shape, and why good criticism needs firm principles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the book is poetry itself. Coleridge explores imagination, fancy, and poetic faith, then brings his ideas to the work of his friend William Wordsworth. Their shared Lyrical Ballads becomes a starting point for questions about belief and poetic language. Friendship does not keep him from weighing a poet's faults alongside his gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eImagination and fancy\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore Coleridge's distinction between the power that creates and the faculty that rearranges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA poet reads Wordsworth\u003c\/strong\u003e – Watch close attention and unusual honesty shape a friend's assessment of poetic faults and gifts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe choice to believe\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider poetic faith through Coleridge's account of the plan behind Lyrical Ballads.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe mind makes meaning\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow his turn toward German philosophy as he seeks principles for judging poetry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAn education in judgment\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet the schoolboy and stern teacher at the beginning of Coleridge's history of his opinions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for poetry lovers who want to follow a poet's thinking, and readers curious about Romantic ideas of mind and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and follow Coleridge from a schoolroom into the questions at the heart of poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534560788828,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/00845_en_ebook-front_c24.jpg?v=1792174890","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/biographia-literaria","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}