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Despite his role as a founder of English Romanticism, Coleridge remains a comparatively obscure figure due to his dual nature as a great poet and a critic with challenging philosophies. Therefore, Biographia Literaria and Coleridge s Poetry: Critical Thought in Poetic Language analyses Coleridge s major poetic concepts in his critical work Biographia Literaria - that is, the concepts of imagination, the merging of subject and object, and the reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities - and reveals how Coleridge s poems reflect these concepts. After an introduction on Romanticism and Biographia Literaria, the work studies the concepts through critical views and concentrates on Coleridge s poems "The Eolian Harp", "Kubla Khan", The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and "Dejection: An Ode" to illustrate the argument. So, the study highlights Coleridge s less-discovered critical side alongside his well-known nature as a talented poet. With such a deep analysis between Coleridge the Romantic critic and Coleridge the Romantic poet, Biographia Literaria and Coleridge s Poetry aims to contribute to a comparatively unexplored area within the Romantic poetry studies.