Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejects William Wordsworth's Romanticist claim that feelings arising from the contemplation of nature provide the best part of human language. In Coleridge's opinion, the Reformation is responsible for that.

Coleridge thereby rejects the very Romantic theory for which he becomes identified by the English literary tradition.

‘One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.’ (Wordsworth)

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