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Literary Criticism II
ENG- 332
Lecture No: 06
“Biographia Literaria By S.T Coleridge”
Course: Literary Criticism II- ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk
By: Siraj Khan
Lecturer in English
KUST

Outlines
Poet’s Biography
Biographia Literaria
His Theory of Poetry
Coleridge’s Views on Poem
Suspension of Disbelief
The Three Approaches
Fancy & Imagination
Topic: Biographia Literaria by Coleridge
Course: Literary Criticism II ENG- 332 – Instructor: Siraj Khan, Lecturer in English, Department of English KUST- Email: siraj.khan@kust.edu.pk

S.T Coleridge
(October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834 )
 English Romantic Poet
 His Love for Supernaturalism
 His Contribution in the Lyrical Ballads
 Literary Critic
 Fancy and Imagination
 Influenced by German Philosopher
 Influence on American Transcendentalism

1817, London

Biographia Literaria ( 1817)
 The Most Significant Theoretical Work
 Criticism on Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetry
 Imagination and Fancy
 The Form of Poetry( Meditative Narrative)
 Relationship to Philosophy and Psychology
 Theory of Creative Imagination
 An Autobiography in Discourse

Coleridge's Views on Poetry
MIMETIC Approach
Poetry is Artificial
Selective in Words and Artistic Language
Ordinary & Extraordinary

Views on Poem
 Merely a form of its expression
 Synthesis Poet’s Emotions and Feelings
 Poem is Synthetic and Magical Power
 A Container of the elements as a prose
composition
 Metre and Rhyme

 Coleridge’s Theory of Suspension of disbelief
 Semblance of disbelief
 Poetic Faith
Willing Suspension of Disbelief

The Three Approaches
Affective Approach Objective Approach
1. A poem is that species of composition, which
is opposed to works of science by proposing
for its immediate object pleasure, not truth
2. The parts of which mutually support and explain each other; all in
their proportion harmonizing with, and supporting the purpose and
known influences of metrical arrangement
Expressive Approach

Poetic Genius or Poetic Imagination
Images
Thoughts
Emotions
Expressive Approach

Fancy And Imagination
 Primary & Secondary Imagination
 The difference is only of degree
 In kind and nature
 Creativity
 Possession
 Conscious and Volunteer

Fancy
 Differ in kind and Nature
 Common Possession of man
 Less creative
 Merely Associative

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