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...poetic pleasure; secondly (a motive first indicated in 1800), "to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature."f Each poem, we are told, has a purpose, and in his Preface, in a passage since omitted, Wordsworth...

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...to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and...which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.' He contends that each of his poems has a worthy purpose ; that ' all good poetry is the spontaneous...

...to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect ; and, further, and...these incidents and situations interesting by tracing ia them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature : chiefly, as far as regards...

...poetic pleasure; secondly (a motive first indicated in 1800), " to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature."* Each poem, we are * It may here be noted that the celebrated " Preface of 1800," as it appears in later...