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Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20060101
Author:Bratcher, James T.

The first of five extensive footnotes in chapter 4 of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Biographia Literaria takes issue with critics who objected to the new kind of poetry put forward in Lyrical Ballads, the second edition (1800), and to Wordsworth's preface, which justifies a poetry that honors the humbler incidents and personalities of domestic life. In the text immediately above the footnote, Coleridge had written of the critics' response to the preface and to poems like "Simon Lee" and "The Thorn" (his examples): "Not able to deny that the author possessed both genius and a powerful ...

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