Coleridge's principles of criticism: Chapters I.,III., IV.,XIV.-XXII of biographia Literaria / Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Chapter I
The motives of the present work - Reception of the Author's first publication- Discipline of his taste at school - The effect of contemporary writers upon youthful minds - Bowles's Sonnets - comparison of the poets before and since Pope
Chapter II
The Author's obligation to critics, and the probable occasion - principles of modern criticism - Mr. Southey's works and character
Chapter III
The lyrical Ballads, with the preface - Mr. Wordsworth's earlier poems - on fancy and imagination - the investigation of the distinction important to the fine arts
Chapter IV
Occasion of the Lyrical Ballads, and the objects originally proposed - preface to the second edition - The ensuring controversy, its causes and Acrimony - Philosophic definitions of a poem and poetry, with scholia
Chapter V
The specific symptoms of poetic power elucidated in a critical analysis of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and rape of Lucrece
Chapter VI
Striking points of difference between the poets of the present age and those of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries - wish expressed for the union of the characteristic merits of both
Chapter VII
Examination of the tenets peculiar to Mr. Wordsworth - Rustic life especially unfavourable to the formation of a Human diction - The best parts of language the products of philosophers, not of clowns or shepherds - poetry essentially ideal and generic - The language of Milton as much the language of real life, yea, incomparably more so, than that of the cottager
Chapter VIII
Language of metrical composition, why and wherein essentially different from that of prose - origin ad elements of metre - its necessary consequences, and the conditions thereby imposed on the metrical writer in the choice of his diction
Chapter IX
Continuation - concerning the real object which it is probable Mr. Wordsworth had before him in his critical preface - Elucidation and application of this
Chapter X
The former subject continued - The Neutral style, or that common to prose and poetry, exemplifies by specimens from Chaucer, Herbert and others
Chapter XI
Remarks on the present mode of conducting critical journals
Chapter XII
The characteristic defects of Mr. Wordsworth's poetry, with the principles from which the judgement that they are defects is deduced - Their proportion to the beauties - for the greatest part characteristic of his theory only
Chronological
Notes
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