# Coleridge — On the Art of Writing character guide

> Coleridge in On the Art of Writing by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0005-lecture-iii-on-the-difference-between-verse-and-prose

## Who they are

Romantic poet and critic quoted on imagination and language.

## In the story

### [Lecture IV: On the Capital Difficulty of Verse](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/on_the_art_of_writing_se/chapters/lecture-iv-on-the-capital-difficulty-of-verse)

Cited for his philosophical explanation of metre from Biographia Literaria, though the lecturer prefers a simpler historical approach.

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