What are the similarities of Wordsworth and Coleridge?

Both William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were
English Romantic poets. That being said, both poets adhered to the characteristics
typical of the Romantic poet.

Romantics focused their works
upon the following ideas:

1. Value of feeling over
reason.

2. Highlighted both nature and
imagination.

3. Wanted readers to look at the past through
different lenses than before.

Both Wordsworth and
Coleridge's works epitomized the importance of nature and free thought. After they met,
both were highly influenced by the other. The impact of each's theology on the other
changed each's writings to fit a more Romantic view of the world and of
poetry.

Both poets focused upon the impact of nature and
spirituality in life. The poetry, for each, was filled with imagery that reflected the
importance of nature in man's life.

The poetry book
Lyrical Ballads (1798) was a collaboration on the part of both
Coleridge and Wordsworth.