literature (poetry) as an index to personality
"Defence of Poetry"
rejection of poetic diction
emphasis on "good sense"
praise of Shakespeare's "King Lear"
"Lyrical Ballads"
good poetry as "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
imagination vs reason
influence of Platonic idealism (Ion)
imagination as "esemplastic power"
Preface
extension of the term "poet" to any creative thinker
poet not merely a craftsman
Chapter 13
emphasis on poem being an "organic vital whole"
fancy as "a mode of memory"
favoring natural speech in poetry
"Biographia Literaria"
reaction to Stephen Gosson's "School of Abuse"
primary and secondary imagination
