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BIOGRAPHIA LITERARIA

OR

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF MY

LITERARY LIFE AND OPINIONS

BY

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION IN PART

BY THE LATE HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE
COMPLETED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS WIDOW

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ADVERTISEMENT.

This new edition of my Father's Biographia Literaria was partly prepared for publication by his late Editor. The corrections of the text in the first nine or ten chapters of Vol. I., and in the first three or four of Vol. II., are by his hand; the notes signed "Editor" were written by him; and he drew up the Biographical Supplement (the first three chapters of it containing the Letters), which was placed at the end of the second volume. His work it has fallen to me to complete, and the task has been interesting, though full of affecting remembrances, and brought upon me by the deepest sorrow of my life. The biographical sketch I have published as I found it, with trifling alterations and omissions, filling up a few gaps and supplying the mottoes. Had the writer himself taken it up again, he would probably have improved and continued it.

I have only to add that my thanks are due to many kind friends, who have assisted me in my part of the undertaking with advice, information, or loan of books; especially my Father's dear Friend and Fellow Stadent, Mr. Green, Archdeacon Hare, and my brother-in-law, Mr. Justice Coleridge. I am also much indebted for help towards my work to Mr. Pickering, by whom a great number of the books referred tɔ in the notes were placed in my hands.

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