Topic : Difference between Wordsworth and Coleridge

1. PAPER – 3
 Name : Amit s. Makvana
 Roll no : 01
 Enrollment No : 2069108420200022
 Paper no : 3. Literary criticism
 Topic : Difference between Wordsworth and Coleridge
 M.A. Sem -1
 Batch : 2019 – 21
Email ID : a.makwana10998@gmail.com
 Submitted To : S.B. Gardi Department of English MKBU

3. DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
 INTRODUCTION :
 A British poet who was born April 7,1770 in
cockermouth ,camberland,in the lake district
. (Lake poet )
 He was orphaned at an early stage .
 Romantic poet
 With Samuel Taylor Coleridge,launched the
Romantic Age in English literature.
 His love of nature
 Become poet Laureate in 1843
 He died in Rydal mount on April 23,1850.

4. INTRODUCTION :
 Born in 1772 in ottery st.mary on October
21,1772 .He was the youngest of ten
childrens.
 His parents weren’t married and he lost
his father when he was ten year.
 After his sister died , Coleridge was rather
ill and started to use opium.This would
addiction he would have for life .
 Coleridge and William Wordsworth wrote
lyrical ballads ,which is considered the
start of the English Romantic movement.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

6. WORKS OF THE POETS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
 Lyrical ballads ,With a few other poems
(1798) .
Poems ,in two volumes (1807)
 The Excursion (1814)
 The prelude (1850)
 An Evening walk (1793)
 Descriptive sketches (1793)
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
 The Rime of the Ancient mariner 1798,the
first poem of the Collection Lyrical ballads
 1816 – Christabel ,an unfinished narrative
poem
 1816 – The dreamlike poem Kubla Khan ,
composed under the influence of opium.
 1817 – Biographia literaria,a classic text
of literary criticism and autobiography.

7. Definition of poetry

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POEMS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
 He sought to give the charm of novelty to
things of everybody objects of nature by
colouring it with the power of imagination .
 Presented the comman and simple life of
peasants and Shepherds – realistic
description of his experience .
 Simplicity in diction – no difference
between prose and poetry
 High priest of nature
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
 He sought to give the charm of novelty to
things of everybody Objects –by making
supernatural natural.
 Introduced dream like quality – element
of mystery – wonder and supernatural.
 Element of mysticism in diction – he
differentiates prose and poetry in diction.
 Lived in the world of fancy and thoughts.

9. SUBJECT MATTERS AND THEMES OF THE POEMS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
 Content : Things from ordinary life
 Aim : To give these ordinary things
the charm of novelty
 Style : The language of common
men purified by the poet
 Main interest : Relationship
between man and nature ;
imagination as a means of
knowledge
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
 Content : super natural characters
 Aim : To give them a semblance of
truth
 Style : Archaic language rich in
sound devices
 Main interest : The creative power
of imagination

10. WORDSWORTH POEM THE DAFFODILS COLERIDGE POEM KUBLA KHAN
Difference