DSC 301: Biographia Literaria. Theory of Imagination (4)
BL was written in 1817 by S.T. Coleridge. He lived from 1772 to 1834. Along with WW's Lyrical Ballads, it became very important mouthpiece of literary criticism begotten from the romantic age and falls under Romantic criticism. It is autobiographical and philosophical too. It is openly said that BL was written when ST Coleridge used to be in opium addicted mode. It is a book on Imagination which is the imitation of the worldy. According to Coleridge, language should not be very simple but be charged and creative enough. His theory of imagination in this book gives the new conception on poetry and poem in English literature. It is also a statement of Coleridge's principles in politics, philosophy, religion apart from the literary theory. BL is a voluminous book of 23 chapters. It is about Coleridge's self conception of creativity. It is a meditative narrative because it doesn't start with childhood chronologically. STC gets lost again and again in the philosophy of life,...