The great outburst of literary theory in the 18th century was instrumental in establishing literary theory in the 19th century as an area of intellectual activity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, more than anyone, tranformed both the status and the nature of literary theory. Arguing that questions about poetry and literature could lead to a structured system of assessment and judgements that had a validity that was different only in degree from that found in the physical sciences, Coleridge gave new authority to the imaginative sciences. One of the questions that concerned literary theorists in the...
The great outburst of literary theory in the 18th century was instrumental in establishing literary theory in the 19th century as an area of intellect...
