![]() Wordsworth sees his poetry as the “metrical arrangement” of the “real language of men,” and he believes that its subject matter should be drawn from “common life.” The function of poetry is to reveal the “essential passions” underlying experience and to guide the reader into those habits of mind that enable him to perceive the inherent beauty in nature and everyday life.Īnother purpose of the preface is to define the qualities that make a poet, and defend the new poetic forms in Lyrical Ballads from criticism. The crucial differences have to do with language and subject. In so doing, the Preface articulates how the poetry of the Romantics broke with the classical tradition of seventeenth- and eighteenth- century poetry. ![]() ![]() Wordsworth’s purpose is to explain the aesthetic concepts behind his poetry (and, to a lesser extent, that of Coleridge). ![]()
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