Coleridge’s principle and the difference between scientific and literary criticism

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2025-02-21

Summary:

Katherine Rundell quotes Samuel Taylor Coleridge writing “his central Principle of Criticism”: never to lose an opportunity of reasoning against the head-dimming, heart-damping principle of judging a work by its defects, not its beauties. Every work must have the former … Continue reading

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https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/21/coleridges-principle-and-the-difference-between-scientific-and-literary-criticism/

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literature

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

02/21/2025, 13:38

Date published:

02/21/2025, 09:00