The Minor Critical Papers 204 Coleridge’s examination of Wordsworth’s views 205 His critical qualifications 206 Unusual integrity of his critique 207 Analysis of it 207 The “suspension of disbelief” 208 Attitude to metre 208 Excursus on Shakespeare’s _Poems_ 210 Challenges Wordsworth on “real” and “rustic” life 210 “Prose” diction and metre again 211 Condemnation in form of Wordsworth’s theory 212 The _Argumentum ad Gulielmum_ 212 The study of his poetry 213 High merits of the examination 213 Wordsworth a rebel to Longinus and Dante 214 The _Preface_ compared more specially with the _De Vulgari_ 215 And Dante’s practice 215 With Wordsworth’s 216 The comparison fatal to Wordsworth as a critic 217 Other critical places in Coleridge 218 The rest of the _Biographia_ 218 _The Friend_ 219 _Aids to Reflection_, &c. 220 The _Lectures on Shakespeare_, &c. 220 Their chaotic character 221 And preciousness 222 Some noteworthy things in them: general 223 And particular 224 Coleridge on other dramatists 224 The _Table Talk_ 224 The _Miscellanies_ 225 The Lecture _On Style_ 226 The _Anima Poetæ_ 227 The _Letters_ 229 The Coleridgean position and quality 230 He introduces once for all the criterion of Imagination, realising and disrealising 231 The “Companions” 232 Southey 233 General characteristics of his Criticism 234 Reviews 235 _The Doctor_ 235 Altogether somewhat _impar sibi_ 236 Lamb 237