"The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a ‘ruined man’ is itself a vocation."

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AutobiographiesWorks by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Original Language: English

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T. S. Eliot, "Wordsworth and Coleridge" (9 December 1932); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (London: Faber and Faber, 1933), p. 69