Coleridge and wordsworth

From up till , Coleridge and Wordsworth have enjoyed a friendship. During this time they have collaborated in producing the Lyrical Ballads, a volume of verse to which Coleridge has contributed his Ancient Mariner. This volume, produces in , is said to have ushered in the English Romantic Movement.

Coleridge and wordsworth relationship

Different Approach. But in planning the poems for this volume, the differences between these two poets at once come out. Wordsworth is to write poems on common subjects "such as will be found in every village" and make them appear significant with his "original gift of spreading the atmosphere of the ideal world over familiar forms and incidents".

Coleridge, on the other hand, is to write on "supernatural" subjects, "made real by the dramatic truth of such emotions, supposing them real. Coleridge revives the elements of wonder and mystery, whereas, Wordsworth revives interest in nature. Coleridge by writing The Ancient Mariner make the supernatural appear like the natural credible and convincing ; Wordsworth by writing The Solitary Reaper, Immortality Ode and Tintern Abbey make the natural look like the supernatural, sublime and marvellous.

Attitude to Nature. Wordsworth spiritualises nature.