Wordsworth and Coleridge - Wordsworth's Efficiency and Coleridge's Otherness (Hardcover)

The author argues that in order to appreciate the extraordinary application and industry of Wordsworth, one does not need to risk forgetting the extraordinariness of Coleridge's bursts of creativity and, in order to appreciate Coleridge, one does not need to simultaneously react against a 'dull', 'dutiful' Wordsworth. The book is divided into two parts to acknowledge the dichotomy between the methodologies of Wordsworth and Coleridge - one efficient the other inefficient. In the opinion of many, each was the other's most reliable and powerful source of creative inspiration.