Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction: A Study of the Historical and Personal Background of the Lyrical BalladsYale University Press, 1917 - 191 pages |
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artistic attempt beautiful Ben Jonson blank verse character characteristic Chaucer classical criticism Descriptive Sketches Dryden early edited with Introduction efforts eighteenth century elder poets Elizabethan emotion English poetry Essay example expression fancy feeling Gabriel Harvey genius Glossary grammar Gregory Smith Hawkshead heroic couplet Ibid ideal idiom Idiot Boy illustrated imagery images imagination imitation Jonson Lamb language of poetry later Latin Legouis cites lines literary literature lower and middle Lyrical Ballads manner metre Milton mind natural original Oxford edition passion peculiar periphrastic Ph.D phrase poems poet's poetic diction Pope Preface Prelude prose reader real language remarks repetition result rhyme rustic Samuel Taylor Coleridge says seems sense Shakespeare Simon Lee simplicity speak speech Spenser Spingarn stanza style suggested syntax taste theory of poetic things Thorn thought tion versification vocabulary Warton William Wordsworth words Wordsworth and Coleridge worth writing