Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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... attempt to define a permanent language in sociological terms . iii The Language of Prose - The second stage of Wordsworth's attempt to define his language consists of two parts : a de- the language of permanent poetic appeal 1 finition ...
... attempt to define a permanent language in sociological terms . iii The Language of Prose - The second stage of Wordsworth's attempt to define his language consists of two parts : a de- the language of permanent poetic appeal 1 finition ...
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... attempt even to describe the scene.23 In 1799 he produced the remarkable version of it which appears in The Prelude , VI , 556–72 , and he made many later attempts to improve it . The images in this passage are concerned with the ...
... attempt even to describe the scene.23 In 1799 he produced the remarkable version of it which appears in The Prelude , VI , 556–72 , and he made many later attempts to improve it . The images in this passage are concerned with the ...
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... attempt .. to communicate impassioned feelings , " is to be reconciled with " the free- dom and power of real and substantial action and suffering ” ( 344—5 ) . Wordsworth's new ideas are commonplaces of certain eighteenth- and ...
... attempt .. to communicate impassioned feelings , " is to be reconciled with " the free- dom and power of real and substantial action and suffering ” ( 344—5 ) . Wordsworth's new ideas are commonplaces of certain eighteenth- and ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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