Critical Analysis of Preface to Lyrical Ballads

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After the lyrical ballads were published, wordsworth wrote a “Preface to lyrical ballad” ,in order to enlighten readers of his purpose in writing poems. this was also helped by one of his friend ( S.T.Coleridge ) who furnished him with the poems of “the ancient mariner and the nightingale..” In this preface, Wordsworth has given justification to the reasoning of the readers ( he wrote,” I Myself may protect from the most dishonourable accusation which can be brought against an author.” ) at very depiction of common man ,usingthe common language and his contemporaries, he tried to prove his works better than of thiers . The preface was written with the further aim of demonstrating the importance of feelings in the situation and action and to describe how the poetry is the result of “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. Wordsworth clearly achieves these goals for most of the part, but it seems to not able to display the way oin which poetry is this “overflow of feelings” .. His principles object was to choose incidents and situations from common life..for him the rustic life of village is the better than the life of city’s or towns which he very rigidly justifies this by adding that our elementary feelings and passions can grow better in rural life ,which is buil upon elementary feelings and passions can grow better (polite or rude),and they may also be contemplated and communicated better than any other writer’s work at that time.. Even he has called the style of modern writers as gaudy and inane phraseology ,and those who do not understand his style to have fickle tastes, mind and fickle appetites… this is something ,which no reader would accept at all for the reason that everyone has diffrent taste and it’s not important that he/she would like it and praise it.. In the preface what i find to the utmost disgrace is how poet himself can call the
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