Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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William Wordsworth Warwick Jack Burgoyne Owen. produced by an artificial diction.8 If the artificiality of metre produces such an effect , why should not the effect be produced or enhanced by the artificiality of poetic diction ? The ...
William Wordsworth Warwick Jack Burgoyne Owen. produced by an artificial diction.8 If the artificiality of metre produces such an effect , why should not the effect be produced or enhanced by the artificiality of poetic diction ? The ...
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... produced , which is confessedly produced by metrical composition essentially different from that which I have here endeavoured to recommend : for the Reader will say that he has been pleased by such composition ; and what more can be ...
... produced , which is confessedly produced by metrical composition essentially different from that which I have here endeavoured to recommend : for the Reader will say that he has been pleased by such composition ; and what more can be ...
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... produced , differing materially from the real language of men in any situation . The Reader or Hearer of this 20 distorted language found himself in a perturbed and unusual state of mind : when affected by the genuine language of ...
... produced , differing materially from the real language of men in any situation . The Reader or Hearer of this 20 distorted language found himself in a perturbed and unusual state of mind : when affected by the genuine language of ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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