ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1798, the two poets joined together to publish the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that is considered by many to be the definitive starting point of the Romantic Era. Over the course of their collaboration, the second edition followed suit in 1800.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coleridge and Wordsworth Wordsworth’s main themes, like Coleridge, were memory, Nature and childhood. The style of Coleridge was simple and common, instead Wordsworth’s one that was difficult, full of metaphor, similes, symbolism and with a pessimistic vision.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth maintains that the language of poetry is selection of the real language of men. Coleridge argues that everyone’s language varies according to the extent of his knowledge, the activities of his faculties and the depth and quickness of his feelings.

Detailed explanation-4: -But Wordsworth was interested only in the practice of poetry, and he considered only the impact of imagination on poetry. Coleridge, on the other hand, was interested in the theory of imagination. He was the first critic to study the nature of imagination and examine its role in creative activity.