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           Biographia literaria includes some of the most important English writing on poetic theory. Some of it is a response to ideas of poetry advanced by his close friend and collaborator WILLIAM WORDSWORTH first in the 1800 preface to their joint publication LYRICAL BALLADSand then in the preface to wordsworth's collection poems(1815). Referring to the letter, coleridge says he wants in Biographia Literaria to make clear 'on what points I coincide with the opinions in that preface, and in what points I altogether differ.                        Difference between poem and prose.     According to Coleridge  Poem: Artificial arrangement of words prose : words in their best order.  If talk about similarity of poem and prose the elements like language, event and thoughts are same. But difference in their object. According to my understanding , the   aim of prose is to give information. On the other hand poem is work of art. Imagination we can find in both