Biographia Literaria Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Shawcross Originally conceived as a short preface to Sibylline Leaves, by the time Coleridge's Biographia Literaria was published in 1817 it had expanded into a two-volume apologia for the Romantic poet's "literary life and opinions." Coleridge here develops a theory of the poetic imagination, in which an artist's passion, will, memory, and perception... more » intersect to engender her or his work. This unique edition is essential to understanding the influences and ideology of Romanticism.« less