Biographia Literaria Essays

Response to Statement 2: In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge states that his part in the Lyrical Ballads was to dedicate himself "to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic"(see LB ch.14, reader p. 44). His challenge was to do this in a way in which the readers would be willing to forget their disbelief and the implausibility of certain aspects or actions of and around said characters. As I interpret it, the audience should thus allow themselves to accept an altered reality where

What effect did Blackwood’s Magazine have on society and its readership? Were these effects impactful enough to make a positive and/or negative difference within society? Blackwood’s Magazine greatly affected British society socially and politically, both in a positive and negative sense. Firstly in a positive way, it provided information and news about medical reports, births, deaths, marriages, economics and taxation to its readers. However, from evaluation of the registers of births, deaths