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(a) Of the Principles of Poetry and the 'Lyrical Ballads' (1798–1802.) (b) Of Poetic Diction. (c) Poetry as a Study (1815). (d) Of Poetry as Observation and Description, and Dedication of 1815. (e) Of 'The Excursion:' Preface. (f) Letters to Sir George and Lady Beaumont and others on the Poems and related Subjects. (g) Letter to Charles Fox with the 'Lyrical Ballads,' and his Answer, &c. (h) Letter on the Principles of Poetry and his own Poems to (afterwards) Professor John Wilson.

(a) to (e) form appendices to the early and later editions of the Poems, and created an epoch in literary criticism. COLERIDGE put forth his utmost strength on a critical examination of them, oblivious that he had himself impelled, not to say compelled, his friend to write these Prefaces, as WORDSWORTH signifies. It is not meant by this that COLERIDGE was thereby shut out from criticising the definitions and statements to which he objected.