ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Coleridge famously wrote in meter because he was “about to use a language different from that of prose.” Wordsworth, on the contrary, considered the ability of meter to provide a contrast to diction-whether the language was passionate or flat-to be the only aesthetic requirement necessary to produce poetic pleasure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth defines a poet in the following lines: He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to common among mankind.

Detailed explanation-3: -In brief the main ideas which Wordsworth lists in the Preface are the following: The subject matter of poetry is whatever that interests the human mind. The Lyrical Ballads are written as experiments, to try out the use of the language of conversation of real people in poetry.

Detailed explanation-4: -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".