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From: Asmaa Jamal
Date: 29 Nov 2001
Time: 05:37:36
Remote Name: 195.39.134.82
When I read the Biographia literaria I was wondering why Coleridge keeps talking about Wordsworth specifically, Is he a bad poet or what? Then I found that Coleridge & Wordsworth collaborated with each other in writing the Lyrical Ballads. What attracts me in this part is that Coleridge collaborated with Worsworth although he doesnt agree with him at all. I feel that this is not convincing. Moreover, I don't agree with Coleridge in saying that ordinary people don't have the ability to express something as poetry, and that language of highly educated people can best express poetry. In my opinion, there are poets who are not highly educated and become great poets. So, it seems to me that it is a natural gift that does not depend on the degree of education basically.