This is my presentation of Literary criticism and Theories submitted to Prof.Dr Dilip Barad,MKBU.

2.  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

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

4. 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 :

5.  “ 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.”

6.  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.”