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Chapter XIII of Biographia Literaria has dominated the way we think about Coleridge, his poetry and his imagination for far too long. Coleridge himself disowned it towards the end of his life.

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Ward, D. (2013). ‘The Whole Soul of Man’. In: Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362629_5

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