"The fashionable journal is expected to be a mirror of public opinion in its own party, a brilliant magnifying mirror, in which the mind of the public may see itself look large and handsome."
— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Rest Fenner
Date
1817
Metaphor
"The fashionable journal is expected to be a mirror of public opinion in its own party, a brilliant magnifying mirror, in which the mind of the public may see itself look large and handsome."
Metaphor in Context
Periodical literature can hardly be said to create public taste and opinion: I believe it does no more than strongly reflect and thereby concentre and strengthen it. The fashionable journal is expected to be a mirror of public opinion in its own party, a brilliant magnifying mirror, in which the mind of the public may see itself look large and handsome. Woe be to the mirror if it presumes to give pictures and images of its own!--it will fall to the ground, even if not shivered at once by popular indignation. [...]
(p. 367)
(p. 367)
Categories
Provenance
Searching UTI's Digital General Collection at University of Michigan Library
Citation
Text drawn from or checked against S. T. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria. ed. James Engell and W. Jackson Bate, Bollingen Series: The Collected Works, vol. vii (Princeton UP, 1983).
See also Project Gutenberg edition <Link>.
See also Project Gutenberg edition <Link>.
Date of Entry
09/22/2005
Date of Review
05/27/2008
