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poet, was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, England, and died on April 23, 1850, at Rydal Mount, serving as England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nNET with DAKSHITA Ma'am  5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \n• Regarded as one of the founders of English Romanticism.  \n• His collaboration with Coleridge produced Lyrical Ballads (1798), the founding text of Romantic poetry.  \n• Wordsworth’s “Observations Prefixed to Lyrical Ballads”(1802) functions as a manifesto of Romantic aesthetics.  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nKey Ideas from the “Preface”  \n• Reaction against earlier poetry that was:  \n• Epic or satiric in theme  \n• Focused on mythic heroes or urban elites  \n• Written in heroic couplets and elevated diction  \n• Proposed a radical redefinition of poetry:  \n• Poetry should focus on ordinary life and common experiences.  \n• Language should be simple and natural,“the very language of men.”  \n• Advocated democratic subject matter, emphasizing rural people, emotions, and daily life.  \n• Asserted the moral and psychological value of poetry: it should “strengthen”and “purify” the human mind.  \n• Sought to make poetry accessible and intelligible in an industrializing and urbanizing society.  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nLyrical Ballads as an Experiment  \n• Wordsworth presents the poems as a deliberate experiment, not accidental innovation.  \n• Aim: to test how much poetic pleasure can arise from “the real language of men” shaped into metre.  \n• Quote: “It was published, as an experiment…by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation.”  \nAnticipated Mixed Reception  \n• He expected polarized responses, strong pleasure or strong dislike.  \n• The actual reception exceeded his expectations in approval.  \n• Quote: “They who should be pleased with them would read them with more than common pleasure… a greater number have been pleased than I ventured to hope.”  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nRefusal of a Full Theoretical Defence  \n• Declines a systematic defence to avoid:  \n• Appearing self-serving  \n• Expanding beyond the scope of a preface  \n• A full defence would require analysis of public taste, language, mind, literature, and society.  \n• Quote: “Adequately to display the opinions… would require a space wholly disproportionate to a preface.”  \nNeed for a Limited Explanation  \n• A brief explanation is necessary because the poems are “materially different” from popular poetry.  \n• Intention: to prevent reader disappointment and accusations of authorial negligence.  \n• Quote: “That at least he may be spared any unpleasant feeling of disappointment.”  \nConnect with me on @ @ NET Prep with DAKSHITA Ma'am, 5:00 PM  \nUse Code “Dakshita \" for DISCOUNT.  \n@NET Prep with Dakshita Ma'am  \nExpectations from Verse and Poetic Convention  \n• Writing in verse implies a contract with the reader, shaped by historical conventions.  \n• Expectations change across literary ages (from Shakespeare to Pope) .  \n• Wordsworth admits many readers may feel he has violated this contract.  \n• Quote: “By the act of writing in verse an Author makes a formal engagement…”  \nRejection of Ornamental Poetic Diction  \n• Readers trained in “gaudiness and inane phraseology” may find his poetry strange or awkward.  \n• Challenges the idea that poetry must rely on artificial elevation.  \n• Quote: “They will look round for poetry, and will be induced to inquire by what species of courtesy these attempts can be permitted to assume that title.”  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