Biographia Literaria; or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions/Volume 1

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Biographia Literaria.

 

BY

 

S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq.

BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA;

 

OR

Biographical Sketches

OF

MY LITERARY LIFE

AND

OPINIONS.

 

By S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq.

 

VOL. I.

 

LONDON:

REST FENNER, 23, PATERNOSTER ROW

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1817.

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S. Curtis, Printer, Camberwell.

BlOGRAPHIA LITERARIA:

 

OR,

 

Biographical Sketches

 

OF MY

 

LITERARY LIFE AND OPINIONS.

So wenig er auch bestimmt seyn mag andere zu belehren, so wuenscht er doch sich denen mitzutheilen, die er sich gleichgesinnt weis, (oder hofft,) deren Anzahl aber in der Breite der Welt zerstreut ist; er wünscht sein Verhältniss zu den ältesten Freunden wieder anzuknüpfen, mit neuen es fortzusetzen, und in der letzen generation sich wieder andere für seine übrige Lebenszeit zu gewinnen. Er wuenscht der Jugend die Umwege zu ersparen, auf denen er sich selbst verirrte.

Goethe

 

Translation. Little call as he may have to instruct others, he wishes nevertheless to open out his heart to such as he either knows or hopes to be of like mind with himself, but who are widely scattered in the world: he wishes to knit anew his connections with his oldest friends, to continue those recently formed, and to win other friends among the rising generation for the remaining course of his life. He wishes to spare the young those circuitous paths, on which he himself had lost his way.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Chapter I
• Chapter II
• Chapter III
• Chapter IV
• Chapter V
• Chapter VI
• Chapter VII
• Chapter VIII
• Chapter IX
• Chapter X
• Chapter XI
• Chapter XII
• Chapter XIII