Biographia Literaria: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Biographia Literaria, credited to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Read in English by Nicole Lee. Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark discursive style, providing a living glimpse of the great talker, the man who could hold his contemporaries in thrall for hours with his dazzling conversation, and who was famously described as the last man "to have read everything". Summary by Nicole Lee.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Biographia Literaria
• Author credits: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Listed recording duration: 11:06:54

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• philosophy
• Germany
• romantics
• lakeland poets

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 28:15
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 19:12
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 22:53
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 19:00
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 14:06
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 12:30
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 12:28
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 8:56
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 21:33
10. 10 - Chapter 10 Part 1 — 43:13
11. 11 - Chapter 10 Part 2 — 26:38
12. 12 - Chapter 11 — 13:58
13. 13 - Chapter 12 — 55:10
14. 14 - Chapter 13 — 14:19
15. 15 - Chapter 14 — 16:53
16. 16 - Chapter 15 — 13:06
17. 17 - Chapter 16 — 9:01
18. 18 - Chapter 17 — 24:08
19. 19 - Chapter 18 — 39:43
20. 20 - Chapter 19 — 13:22
21. 21 - Chapter 20 — 11:56
22. 22 - Chapter 21 — 16:56
23. 23 - Chapter 22 — 58:57
24. 24 - Satyrane Letters 1 — 27:20

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