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Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Never pursue literature as a trade.”

Book:Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

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Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Biographia Literaria is a foundational text in English literary criticism, written by the poet and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The book combines personal memoir with theoretical discussions on poetry, imagination, and the nature of literary creation. Coleridge explores his own intellectual development, his collaborations with William Wordsworth, and his evolving views on the relationship between mind and art. The work is noted for its distinction between fancy and imagination, and for its influence on Romantic literary theory. more

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic, and philosopher, renowned for his works such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'. A leading figure in the Romantic movement, his work has had a significant impact on English literature. more

“The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.”

Source: Shakespeare, With Introductory Matter on Poetry, The Drama, and The Stage by S.T. Coleridge: Coleridge’s Essays and Lectures on Shakespeare and Other Old Poets and Dramatists

“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.”

Made Effort Principles Doubt Effects Style Depends Genius Architecture Greek No Doubt Infinity Execution Gothic Gothic Architecture

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?”