Edited sentence: Encyclopaedia of World Great Poets.He also felt that the poems were a failed attempt at following the style of John Milton.However, Coleridge began to doubt himself and he considered the poems more the property of Joseph Cottle, the publisher, than his own.In what possibly refers specifically to the Sonnets on Eminent Characters, Coleridge wrote to Thomas Poole and said "My poetic Vanity & my political Furore have been exhaled; and I would rather be an expert, self-maintaining Gardener than a Milton, if I could not unite both.Joseph, T.New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 2004.The poems in the series, except for "To Godwin" and "To Southey", were printed in Coleridge's 1796 collection of poems.and Francis, S