Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical BalladsRosenkilde and Bagger, 1957 - 204 pages |
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... rustic environ- ment a man , a feeling , and a language of which the purity , the simplicity , is analogous to these attributes as they apply to the notion of a chemical element ; 10 or , at least , that the closest approximations to ...
... rustic environ- ment a man , a feeling , and a language of which the purity , the simplicity , is analogous to these attributes as they apply to the notion of a chemical element ; 10 or , at least , that the closest approximations to ...
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... rustic life to which this language gives names and expression : those human passions , habits , occupations and environment 24 which are sufficiently basic , important , and permanent in human experience to ensure that the corresponding ...
... rustic life to which this language gives names and expression : those human passions , habits , occupations and environment 24 which are sufficiently basic , important , and permanent in human experience to ensure that the corresponding ...
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... rustic . The poet , from this point of view , is an artificer , and his poem is an artifact , constructed from materials gathered by his observation of others , and shaped and assembled to the lines of a given model . The text of 1802 ...
... rustic . The poet , from this point of view , is an artificer , and his poem is an artifact , constructed from materials gathered by his observation of others , and shaped and assembled to the lines of a given model . The text of 1802 ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
The Theory of Metre | 31 |
The Spontaneous Overflow of Powerful Feelings | 40 |
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