M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITYDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISHName : Maru Janak JRoll no : 26Enrollment no : PG 15101026Paper no : 3 (Literary theory and criticism)Topic : Wordsworth&Coleridge Poetic Comparison Submitted To :M.K Bhavnagar University Department of English

Introduction

William WordsworthSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Literary critic and Philosopher.Born : October 21,1772, Ottery St mary,United KingdomDied : July 25, 1834, Highgate, United Kingdom

William Wordsworth was a Major English Romantic Poet.Born : April 7, 1770, Cocker mouth, United KingdomDied : April 23, 1850, Cumberland, United Kingdom.

What is a Poet :”Is a man speaking to men “Knows a lot –”Greater knowledge of human nature “Is tuned in to emotions-his own and Others: 'A lively sensibility ‘Has a good memory and can imagine distant things as if they are present.And has “greater promptness to think feel without Immediate external existent”.

The Poetic Process

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Samuel Coleridge :

What is poet ?

‘No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the something being a profound philosopher’.He valued scientific thinking as a branch of philosophy. According to him ; if a person is a poet, he should also be a philosopher otherwise he is not poet.The poet must be Educated person who possess poetic genious.

William Wordsworth What is the Poet ?

“He is a man speaking to men: a man ,Endued with more lively sensible who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind”.

Coleridge Vs WordsworthColeridge’s objection to Wordsworth’s use of term ‘Real language of men.’’According to wordsworth ; ‘ Language really by common man’ and ‘The corcern of poetry should be simple, rustic and common life.’ But, for Coleridge ; such a generalization cannot exist, for men are individual by nature.He thought that lowering diction and content simply made it, so that the poet had a smaller vocabularly of both words and concepts to drew from.Coleridge also combines his theoretical ideas in his poetry. He abondans Wordsworth’s notion of poetry for the comman man and uses loftly language, poetic diction and subject matter, while he still holds a reverence for nature in herent to romantic literature, his poet are not exclusively based around the natural.

Conclusion:In certain respect it was Coleridge who had a better flowering.Coleridge soon came to an end Wordsworth could not stop the decline in Coleridge’s poetic power, but one can say that their contribution to English was a landmark for the Romance in English Poetic.

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