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: -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-3: -The story of Biographia Literaria begins many years before the book was published in 1817. Its origins, indeed, may be traced back nearly two decades to Coleridge’s German tour of 1798–9 and a projected biography of the dramatist and critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Biographia Literaria includes some valuable considerations of the philosophy of Kant, Fichte and Schelling as well. The most important of Coleridge’s contributions lies in his theory of the Imagination. He dismisses Fancy as the mere shuffling of sense data and memory by talent.