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criticism of the Romantic era is most closely associated with the writings of William Wordsworth in his ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads (1800) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria (1817) . Modern critics disagree on whether the work of Wordsworth and Coleridge constituted a major break with the criticism of their predecessors or ifit should more properly be characterized as a continuation of the aesthetic theories of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century German and English writers.  \n• In 1800, in the ‘Preface’ to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth issued his famous proclamation about the nature of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” With this statement, Wordsworth posited a very different view of poetry than was standard at the time, shifting the center of attention from the work as a reflection or imitation of reality to the artist, and the artist's relationship to the work. Poetry would henceforth be considered an expressive rather than a mimetic art. Although the analogy of art as a mirror was still used, M. H. Abrams reports that the early Romantics suggested that the mirror was turned inward to reflect the poet's state of mind, rather than outward to reflect external reality. William Hazlitt in his “On Poetry in General”(1818) addressed the changes in this analogy “by combining the mirror with a lamp, in order to demonstrate that a poet reflects a world already bathed in an emotional light he has himself projected,”according to Abrams. Additionally, music replaced painting as the art form considered most like poetry by the Romantics. Abrams explains that the German writers of the 1790s considered music “to be the art most immediately expressive of spirit and emotion,” and both Hazlitt and John Keble made similar connections between music and poetry in their critical writings.  \n• William Wordsworth was primarily a poet but still he has given us a most comprehensive critical document in the form of the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads'. It has an epoch-making significance. It strikes a new note in the history of English literary criticism. It is the manifesto of the Romantic Movement. It gave a new direction, consciousness and programme to English Romanticism.  \n• Wordsworth is the first English critic to consider at length, the nature of poetry, and the creative process. He is a great pioneer in this field. Wordsworth is a romantic in his emphasis on spontaneity, imagination, intuition and inspiration. But unlike the other romantics, he also lays stress on the element of thought in poetry.  \n• Wordsworth goes against the neo-classic view that poetry should both instruct and delight, when he stresses that the function of poetry is to give pleasure, a pleasure of a  \nnoble and exalted kind, pleasure which results from increased understanding and sympathy. If at all it teaches, it does so only indirectly, by purifying the emotions, uplifting the soul, and bringing it nearer to nature.  \n• The credit for having democratized the conception of the poet must go to Wordsworth. According to Wordworth, the poet is essentially a man who differs from other men not in kind, but only in degree. He is essentially a man speaking to men. He has certain gifts ina higher degree than others. He has a more lively sensibility, a more comprehensive soul, greater powers of observation, imagination and communication. He is also a man who has thought long and deep. Others also have these gifts, but the poet has them in a higher degree. Wordsworth emphasizes his organic oneness as also the need for him of emotional identification with other men. It will not do for him to sit high and alone in his ivory tower; he must come out into the light ofcommon day, share in the joys and sorrows of common men and women, and write for their pleasure.  \n• THEMES OF POETRY:' The Preface' marks a revolution in matter of selection of subject for the purpose of poetry. 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