Coleridge then goes to praise the efforts of Wordsworth “for rejecting the usual ornaments an extra-colloquial style of (his) poems” (poetic diction) in Lyrica...
“My own differences from certain supposed parts of Mr. Wordsworth's theory ground themselves on the assumption, that his words had been rightly interpreted, as...
Coleridge feels that Wordsworth was justified in pointing out the artificiality of a poetic diction of the eighteenth century, as it was stagnant and to a g...