...then, which I proposed to myself in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way. Contrasts between the Augustan and Romantic ages are helpful but there are always exceptions to such...

...phraseology of modern writers'. Instead their plan was: to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...possible in a selection of language really used by men. . . . Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions...

...from common life, and to relate or describe them ... in a selection of language really used by man, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of the imagination. William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads I began with a seeming paradox: that all lyric...

...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect. (PW II p.386) This social sphere appears to represent a source of elementary human nature and...

...incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, äs far äs was possible in a selection of language really used...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect" (935). Wie Enzensberger in seinem Nachwort selbst schreibt, war die Übersetzung dieser Sprachebene...

...Wordsworth says in his 1802 Preface to the Lyrical Ballads that he endeavored to describe situations "in a selection of language really used by men; and,...same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of the imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way," an intention...

...well-known statement his intention to treat "incidents and situations from common life" in his poetry and "to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way". In contrast, Keats would soon affirm in his verse epistle to JH Reynolds a wish not to project imaginary...

...turn to the "humble and rustic," and there "to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to ... throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect."14 Similar ideas were part of the fabric of German thought as welL Novalis described the need...

...repr. 1984), 30. " See Eliot, Selected Prose, 48. revisions to the 'Preface', which describe throwing 'over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way' (WProse, I:1z1, 113). This Wordsworthian voice says (and in his copy of Milton no less): 'It has been...

...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems, was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect. William Wordsworth, 1800, Lyrical Ballads, Preface 48:63 The language, too, of these men has...