...Chapter 3 examines Coleridge’s analysis of beauty in the ‘Principles of Genial Criticism’ (1814), which aimed to establish a religious dimension to aesthetic experience. Coleridge’s argument is traced through his Kantian account of aesthetic judgement, and his assertion of unity-in-multiplicity...

... influence is particularly evident in theories of organic form and philosophical approaches to genre, but these in turn draw on earlier British aesthetics, notably Shaftesbury's ‘language of forms’, and undergo further elaboration by Coleridge in his ‘genial criticism’ essays and elsewhere. Goethe's concept...

...This article examines Samuel Taylor Coleridge's career as a literary critic, focusing on his Biographia Literaria and Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism. It explains that Biographia Literaria is Coleridge's most controversial, most widely...