LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Excursion
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Tintern Abbey Lines
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Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
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Immortality Ode
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Detailed explanation-1: -So Eliot rejects the theory of poetry of Wordsworth. He declares that “emotions recollected in tranquility” is an inexact formula. He points out that in the process of poetic composition, there is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor tranquility.
Detailed explanation-2: -However, Wordsworth was primarily a poet and not a critic. In the Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads he informed the readers that the Lyrical Ballads was an experiment. In the Preface he explained in detail what his theories about new poetry were and what was to be looked for in his own poems.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth’s definition of the nation of poetry as propounded in the 1802 preface is important and has to be quoted of length that “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” it takes its origin from “emotion recollected in tranquility".