ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Biographia Literaria is a critical autobiography by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1817 in two volumes. Its working title was ‘Autobiographia Literaria’.

Detailed explanation-2: -The work was originally intended as a preface to a collected volume of his poems, explaining and justifying his own style and practice in poetry.

Detailed explanation-3: -Biographia Literaria, in full Biographia Literaria; or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in two volumes in 1817. Another edition of the work, to which Coleridge’s daughter Sara appended notes and supplementary biographical material, was published in 1847.

Detailed explanation-4: -His most famous works – ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘Christabel’ – all featured supernatural themes and exotic images, perhaps affected by his use of the drugs.

Detailed explanation-5: -His Lyrical Ballads, written with William Wordsworth, heralded the English Romantic movement, and his Biographia Literaria (1817) is the most significant work of general literary criticism produced in the English Romantic period.