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    Wordsworth Preface

This blog related to the blog task based on Wordsworth Preface to lyrical Ballads given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir.  

What is Wordsworth Preface 

Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth begins with a discussion of the collection of poems, written mostly by Wordsworth with contribution by S.T. Coleridge.  Originally published in 1798 - 1800, Wordsworth added an earlier version of the Preface, which extended two years later. Some scholar say that Coleridge wanted to write the Preface but never got around to it so the work felt of Wordsworth instead.  In the Preface, Wordsworth writes that the purpose of the collection was to write poems that dealt with things that happen  in everyday life. Most importantly, Wordsworth considered each poem in the collection to be an experiment in language usage or diction.  In  the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth outlines his definition of the nature and function of poetry- as well as identifying the qualities that make someone a true poet. Wordsworth breaks down the poets process into four stages observation, tranquility, filtering and imagination.  In Preface to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth wants the poets to show the themes from common life which can be poetic and worthy of the contemplations.  Therefore, his poems describe those who live a rustic lifestyle and are closer to the nature and therefore farther away from vanity bred by artifice. Finally, Wordsworth discusses in greater depth the diction of poetry.  Diction is important in all of literature, Wordsworth places particular importance on its role in poetry because it is the poet's medium. Wordsworth argues that the diction of poetry and prose is the same and criticizes the Neoclassicists for their "artificial" and "unnatural language". He wants poetry to center on rustic; humble situation using rustic, humble language. 

Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads 

•  Poems about common people 
• Supernatural events in Coleridge 
• Simple language 
• Nature worship 
• Purity of the human soul 
• Exploration of human memory 
•    And death 

 Is Preface to Lyrical Ballads a pronouncements on romantic literature 

" Preface to lyrical Ballads " is considered as the dividing line between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Even though France philosopher Jean Jacques Rosseau and others had a distinctive idea about this, this Masterpieces gave the Preface shape of this notion.

William wordsworth introduced a new series of writing method which be written in the "language of men."  In this respect, John Dryden supported him with his statement, 

  "It is always a writer's duty to make the world a better place." 

Definition of  William Wordsworth poetry 

Wordsworth also given his famous definition of poetry as " the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility ", and calls his own poems in the book " experimental". A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805.

 Important of the  "Lyrical Ballads " 

   Lyrical Ballads is the collection of beautiful verses brought out in 1798 by the poet due of William Wordsworth and S.T. Coleridge, that lent a fresh air of natural feelings to the previously routine, static and urban elite concepts of the English poetry.  The book thus heralded the dawn of refreshing romanticism throughout the Literary world.  It also redefined the quality, the structure, the benchmark, and the use of colloquialism in the hitherto better loved but less experimented branch of literature that we call poetry. 

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