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Wordsworth states in the preface of Lyrical Ballads that at the core of his poetry the principal object, or core idea, was to choose events and situations from “common life” (187). These events and incidents are to be related or described in a language that is accessible. Wordsworth was a firm believer in regaling poetryContinue reading “Wordsworth’s “Lyrical Ballads” and “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey””