...those of Poets themselves. The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments. They were written chiefly with a view to ascertain...the language of conversation in the middle and lower clafles of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. Readers accuftomed to the gaudiness...

...the public as e xpcrimenis ; since they were written, as he informs us in the advertisement prefixed, 'chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure.' Though we hnve been extremely entertained with the fancy, the facility, and (in general) the sentiments,...

...public -AS experiments ; since they were written, as he informs us in the advertisement prefixed, ' chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language...middle and lower classes of society is adapted to tiic purposes of poetic pleasure.' Though we have been extremely entert.iincd with the fancy, the facility,...

...(Murphy's Ed.) ix. 160. T0b U. T terest the human mind.":): Yet, surely, it will not follow tint " the language of conversation in the middle and lower...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." To afford pleasure, poetry must call imagination to the aid of reason : fancy must create, or at least...

...Wordsworth's, in which the poet declared that the majority of the "Lyrical Ballads" "were written chiefly to ascertain how far the language of conversation...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." Wordsworth's experiment failed; or rather it was never carried out. When once he had owned that metre...

...avowed and daring attempt to set up a new school of poetry. For the public were informed that the poems were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took h're, that is, all who condescended to notice...

...avowed and daring attempt to set up a new school of poetry. For the public were informed that the poems were written " chiefly with a view to ascertain how...society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." At this announcement all the respectable people took fire, that is, all who condescended to notice...

...and lance-thrusts, may only suffocate the weak or sink him the sooner in the waters of oblivion. Au advertisement prefixed to the " Lyrical Ballads,"...in deference to the wider view and finer sense of Coleridge), and now says of the former volume that " it was published aa an experiment which, I hoped,...

...comers in his poetry and his life. It was a new thing for an author to undertake to show the goodness of his verses by the logic and learning of his prose;...in deference to the wider view and finer sense of Coleridge), and now says of the former volume that " it was published as an experiment which, I hoped,...

...comers in his poetry and his life. It was a new thing for an author to undertake to show the goodness of his verses by the logic and learning of his prose...in deference to the wider view and finer sense of Coleridge), and now says of the former volume that "it was published as an experiment which, I hoped,...