Samuel coleridge biography pdf directory

Introduction

Samuel Taylor Coleridge occupies the pride of place among the literary critics to the extent that Saintsbury counts him with Aristotle and Longinus the critics before him discussed about the merits and demerits of the poem but Coleridge put basic questions before us.

Being a romantic poet, Coleridge dislike the classical school of poetry which was artificial.

For him good poetry meant the combination of natural thoughts with natural diction. He found that the poem was effective because “the union of deep feeling with profound thought, the fine balance of truth in observing with the imaginative faculty in modifying the observed… “

Coleridge’s Contribution
Coleridge is remembered for his theory of imagination as set forth in his bookBiographia Literaria, a kind of literary memoir.