William Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Wordsworth has added a treasure to poetry. In his Preface to Lyrical Ballads, he has identified his own views related to creation of poetry and poetry as a whole. Wordsworth is among the romantics who used to visualize poetry as associated to nature and romanticized the very idea of existence of a poet. For the Romantics, the poet was a seer, a creator and the one who kept the ability to deliver the message of nature to the common people. This article contains an interpretation of Wordsworth's ideas as described in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads.

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