Preface of Lyrical Ballads (1800) [ Concepts ]
… to impart such a pleasure to mankind as he who proves the extent of that pleasure will be desirous to impart. The end of Poetry is to produce excitement in co-existence with an overbalance of pleasure; but, by the supposition, excitement is … to impart passion to the words, and to effect the complex end which the Poet proposes to himself. … "The end of Poetry is to produce excitement in co-existence with an overbalance of pleasure; but, by the supposition, excitement is … and irregular state of the mind; ideas and feelings do not, in that state, succeed each other in accustomed order." … Poetry … Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800). Full text here . … Preface of Lyrical Ballads (1800) …
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