discuss wordsworth preface to the lyrical ballads as an expression of the romantic movement departure from the traditional view
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It is also interesting to note that Wordsworth had not read Aristotle9’s Poetics even when he first revised the “Preface”. Hence he made such a guarded statement as “Aristotle, I have been told, has said, that Poetry is the most philosophic of all writing…” (Owen & Smyser 139,5 lines 377-79. Emphasis added). Not just this clause but the whole section (line 283 ff) is absent in the 1800 text.5 Wordsworth was apparently referring to Poetics,10 chap. 9, 1451b 5-6: “for this reason poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history” (trans. Malcolm Heath 16).11 It has been pointed out that Aristotle did not say what is attributed to him by Wordsworth, who must have heard it from Coleridge. Wordsworth, however, acquired first-hand acquaintance with the Poetics when he wrote Prelude (as evidenced in 11. 91-92). Peculiarly enough, Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria 2:101 altered and reversed the order of Aristotle’s words (spoudaiotaton kai philosophotaton genos in place of philosophoteron kai spoudaioteron (noted in5 in their comments on line 378 of the 1850 Preface).
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