A Pride of Footnotes
Robert M. Adams, 17 November 1983
The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol. VII: ‘Biographia Literaria’
edited by James Engell and Walter Jackson Bate.
Routledge/Princeton, 306 pp., £50, May 1983,0 691 09874 3 Show More
edited by James Engell and Walter Jackson Bate.
Routledge/Princeton, 306 pp., £50, May 1983,
“... will not be able to understand this material, and should not try. Across a striking hiatus in MS, we are then led to a vigorous magnification of the imagination as the supreme element of poetry, and an energetic defence of Wordsworth’s poetry which begins with a recitation of its faults. Interspersed with these arguments are comic accounts of the ... ”