...deference to the wider view and finer sense of Coleridge), and now says of the former volume that " it was published as an experiment which, I hoped,...pleasure may be imparted which a poet may rationally endeavor to impart." 1 Here is evidence of a retreat towards a safer position, though Wordsworth seems...

...nature." Wordsworth discarded, in theory, the poetic diction of his predecessors, and professed to use " a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." He adopted, he said, the language of men in rustic life, " because such men hourly communicate with...

...in deference to the wider view and finer sense of Coleridge), and now says of the former volume that "it was published as an experiment which, I hoped,...pleasure may be imparted which a poet may rationally endeavor to impart."* Here is evidence of a retreat towards a safer position, though Wordsworth seems...

...little of a special application to their contents.] THE first Volume of these Poems lias already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as...imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems: I flattered myself...

...little of a special application to their contents.] THE first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as...imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart. I had formed no very inaccurate estimate of the probable effect of those Poems: I flattered myself...

...nature." Wordsworth discarded, in theory, the poetic diction of his predecessors, and professed to use " a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." He adopted, he said, the language of men in rustic life, " because such men hourly communicate with...

...nature." Wordsworth discarded, in theory, the poetic diction of his predecessors, and professed to use " a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." He adopted, he said, the language of men in rustic life, " because such men hourly communicate with...

...and the diction of prose were one and the same, and that poetry was merely ' a metrical arrangement of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation.' The poems which followed the preface setting forth this theory were supposed to be illustrative of...

...and the diction of prose were one and the same, and that poetry was merely ' a metrical arrangement of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation.' The poems which followed the preface setting forth this theory were supposed to be illustrative of...

...and the diction of prose were one and the same, and that poetry was merely ' a metrical arrangement of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation.' The poems which followed the preface setting forth this theory were supposed to be illustrative of...