Preface To The Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
A concise manifesto for a new kind of poetry, it argues that verse should use the plain language of everyday people, center on humble rural life, and arise from the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” recollected in tranquility. It rejects artificial poetic diction, defines the poet as a person of heightened sensibility who unites thought and emotion, and explains how meter and imagination shape feeling without falsifying truth. Ultimately, it presents poetry as a morally enlarging, truth-seeking practice that forges an authentic bond between writer and reader through attention to nature and common experience.
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- Published
- 1800
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- British
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- Pages
- 40-70 pages
- Original Language
- English
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