Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth’s advocacy of poets drawing on the “language really used by men” in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?

A. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
B. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
C. a rejection of nature in favor of society.
D. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

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In his preface to “Lyrical Ballads”, Wordsworth calls for poetry to be written in what kind of language?
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Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads is believed to be the Preamble to Romantic Criticism. In which year was it published ?
A. 1798 B. 1800 C. 1801 D. 1802...
‘Preface to the Lyrical Ballads’ was published in______________?
A. 1798 B. 1800 C. 1802 D. 1815...
Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by_______________?
A. Wordsworth B. Coleridge C. Southey D. Shelly...
Who was the co-author of “Lyrical Ballads” with William Wordsworth ?
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. John Keats C. William Blake D. Lord Byron...
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798, thus demonstrating the “spirit of the age,” which, in an era of revolutionary thinking, depended on a belief in the limitless possibilities of the poetic imagination ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy B. Shelley C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt...
Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798 ?
A. Mary Wollstonecraft and William Blake B. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley C. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt...
In which the the famous work Lyrical Ballads published ?
A. 1778 B. 1769 C. 1798 D. 1792...
The Lyrical Ballads was published in____________________?
A. 1780 B. 1798 C. 1815 D. 1805...
Complete the following sentence. Wordsworth conceives of himself as a “chosen son” primarily because_____________?
A. his brothers died in their youth. B. he was endowed with a great poetic talent. C. he was given special educational opportunities. D. he feels especially connected to nature due to his experience as a youth....