For most critics, the poems of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Dejection Dialogue--the "Immortality Ode," the "Letter" to Sara, and "Resolution and Independence"--reveal the poets disagreeing vehemently over the epistemological relationship of mind and nature. My essay argues conversely that Wordsworth and Coleridge cannot be segregated along an inner/outer perceptual axis, and that Coleridge's engagement of the Ode confirms and extends its leading claims. As reinterpreted here, the Dejection Dialogue sequence belies theories of poetic influence as a subject-centered rivalry, and thereby accommodates our increasing appreciation on the non-proprietary Grasmere culture in which Wordsworth and Coleridge actually produced their work.