Why was William wordsworth upset
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In 1800, William Wordsworth offers a bold and, at the time, deeply controversial claim about poetry. In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (a collection he co-authored with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Wordsworth argues that all poets should dispense with the ornate conventions of eighteenth-century verse and focus upon what he calls the language and incidents of “humble, rustic life”: here, Wordsworth argues, “the essential passions of the heart” are in their purest form. While Lyrical Ballads does make good on Wordsworth’s promise to deliver his readers to the remote quarters of rustic England – this rather unconventional book is peopled with farmers, shepherds, seafarers, huntsmen, and wild, elfish children – not all of Wordsworth’s cast of characters meet the criterion of what he (and we) might deem “common life.” Perusing the collection’s table of contents will illustrate just how much Wordsworth was also interested in abnormal lives and lifestyles: ‘The Mad Mother‘ and ‘The Idiot Boy‘ are just two of the most obvious examples of Wordsworth’s penchant for the uncommon, for lives lived on the other side of “ordinary.”
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