Wordsworth says in his “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” that poetry is “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” These feelings, he suggests, are best expressed in the “language really used by men.” The language of ”low and rustic” life, as he calls it, when used to describe incidents and situations from common life, and then thrown over with [...]
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The Ordinary and the Extraordinary
Posted in Romantic Period, tagged Coleridge, Preface, Romantic, Wordsworth on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
