Published in 1817, Biographia Literaria is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s intellectual autobiography — a rambling, brilliant, and endlessly fascinating account of his own development as a poet and thinker, his friendship with Wordsworth, and his theories of imagination and poetry. It contains some of the most important critical pronouncements in English literary history, including the celebrated distinction between primary and secondary imagination.
Challenging but endlessly rewarding, it is the essential document of Romantic critical thought. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg for the complete text of this landmark work.