Brandeis University
Spring semester, 2003
ENG 171A: History of Literary Criticism
Miles Rind
March 18, 2003

ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 21

        Reading: (1) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, excerpts from Biographia Literaria, chapters XIII and XIV (CT, 478–480)
        (2) John Keats, letters (CT, 493–494)
        (3) Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry (CT, 509–514)

        Question: Can Coleridge’s thesis that “a poem of any length neither can be, [nor] ought to be, all poetry” (p. 480a) be squared with his account of what a poem is (p. 479b)?

        Links to poetry by these authors:
        Keats: http://www.bartleby.com/126/index1.html
        Coleridge: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/poems_links.html
        Peacock: http://www.thomaslovepeacock.net/#P02
 


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