Name : Aarti H. Vadher Sem : 1 Paper no : 3 Roll no : 9 Topic : Coleridge’s Views on Wordsworth’s Poetic Creed

Submit : Department of English MKBU.

Year : 2016-2018

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Born :21 Oct 1772 Died : 25 July 1834 Work : English poet, Literary critic and philosopher. Friend ; William Wordsworth

His views on Wordsworth’s Poetic Creed Coleridge himself not agrees

withWordsworth’s views on poetic diction. His different point of view about poetic faith

he gives in ‘Biographia Literaria’ Wordsworth adopted language of day to day

life in poetry in ‘Lyrical Ballads’ And even in preface Wordsworth giving

strong and powerful criticism on using of common language in poetry

Coleridge’s view differs with him and so in his point of view’s defence he wrote :

“ Had Mr.Wordsworth’s poems been the silly, the childish things, which they were for a long time described as being had they been really distinguished from the compositions of other poets merely by meanness of language inanity of thought; had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the parodies and pretended imitations of them; they must have sunk at once, a dead weight, into the slough of oblivion, and have dragged the preface along with them.”

But it is not happened and Wordsworth’s views were accepted by Critics.

So he gives full credit to the genius of Wordsworth and quoted that:

“year after year increased the number of Mr.Wordsworth’s admirers. They were found too not in the lower classes of the reading public, but chiefly among young men of strong sensibility and meditative minds; and their admiration (inflamed perhaps in some degree by opposition) was distinguished by its intensity, I might almost say, by its religious fervour.”