5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Criticism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on criticism

19. Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.

101. Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

106. Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

134. That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

176. There is no method in his talk: he wanders like a man sailing among many currents, whithersoever his lazy mind directs him; and, what is more unpleasant, he preaches, or rather soliloquises:I reckon him a man of great and useless genius: a strange, not at all a great man.