Wordsworth Coleridge and the Myth of Genius in the Long Eighteenth Century. iGenial Perception/i offers a critical examination of Wordsworths and Coleridgesnaturalist construction of creative and critical perception, and a historical study of the perceptual dimension of poetic taste. Genial is the adjectival form of genius, and eighteenth-century critical naturalism understands genial perception as a gift of nature, as an inborn power operating autonomously through the senses and imagination and thus independently of cultural influence. By exploring the philology of keywords and binaries inherited by the two