6. It is natural, and in so rapid and superficial review as this inevitable, to consider the criticism of Wordsworth and Coleridge together. But we must keep in mind how very different were not only the men themselves, but the circumstances and motives of the composition of their principal critical statements. Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads was written while he was still in his youth, and while his poetic genius still had much to do; Coleridge wrote the Biographia Litteraria much later in life, when poetry, except for that one brief and touching lament for lost youth, had deserted him, and when the disastrous effects of long dissipation and stupefaction of his powers in transcendental metaphysics were bringing him to a state of lethargy. From T. S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1961. Wordsworth and Coleridge 58-77.

6. Paraphrase: The evaluation of Wordsworth and Coleridge's compositions have to be taken into consideration in hurried review=differently. However they=Their compositions were very different in terms of the=their backgrounds, motivation=motives and composition of their critical comments. Wordsworth wrote them=his piece at his young age. when he was poetry in young age. On the other hand, Coleridge was later in writing than Wordsworth=wrote his later in his life. (Eliot, 1961).