This document summarizes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's views on poetry and criticism from his work Biographia Literaria. It outlines Coleridge's distinction between a poem, which deals with subjects through language and form, and poetry, which engages the philosopher mind and evokes deeper feelings in readers. The document also notes that for Coleridge, poetry is a broader category than just poems, as it can be an activity in other creative works. It concludes that Coleridge aimed to establish principles of writing rather than rules for criticism.

1. NAME:- VALA ASHA TIDABHAI.
ROLL NO:- 41.
SEM:- 1 (M.A.)
PAPER NO:- COURSE NO-3.
BATCH:- 2015-17.
TOPIC:- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
POEM & POETRY.
SUBMITTED:- S.B.GARDI
DEPARTMENT OF
ENGLISH M.K.B.U.
IMAIL ID-
valaasha10@gmail.com
LITERARRY THEORY &
CRITICISM.

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
His criticism
Biographia Literaria.
(1815 – 1817)

3. Coleridge & Criticism.
 Coleridge’s new Technique of criticism
is called ‘Appreciative criticism.’
 It is new criticism for new poetry which
provided by Coleridge.
 Coleridge led the way in new method in
criticism.

4.  It sought not to judge but to Appreciate
& interpret.
 He illustrates the tendency of romantic
criticism to stress the effect of art upon
the critic’s emotions.
 Coleridge regarded art as a source of
“Moral & philosophical
wisdom.”

5. Coleridge’s Biographia
literaria.
 It is critical work of Coleridge.
 It contained in 24 chapter.
 It is not only work of criticism, but also
with theory.
 In the chapter-14, where as he highlight
the Difference between poem & poetry.

6. Difference between poem &
poetry.
Poem.
 It is primary
imagination.
 Form of structure.
 Material Language.
 It deals with subject.
 It does not strange for
people.
Poetry.
 It is secondary
imagination.
 Philosophy of mind.
 True feeling of poet.
 It deals with object.
 It arouse shock to
reader.

7. Coleridge,
 A poem is merely one of the forms of its
expression, a verbal expression of that activity,
and poetic activity is basically an activity of
the imagination.
 As David Daiches points out, ‘poetry’ for
Coleridge is a wider category than a ‘poem’
;that is, poetry is a kind of activity which can be
engaged in by painters or philosophers or
scientists and is not confined to those who
employ metrical language,

8.  even to those who employ language of
any kind. Poetry, in this larger sense,
brings, ‘the whole soul of man; into
activity, with each faculty playing its
proper part according to its ‘relative
worth and dignity’.

9. To conclude.
 He endeavored ‘to establish the
principles of writing rather than to furnish
rules about how to pass judgment on
what had been written by other.
 “ Poetry: The best word in the best
order.”