...nonsignification could be bridged by thinking "long and deeply," by looking "steadily at... [the] subject," "by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation," by adopting "the very language of men," by bringing "language near to the language of men," by using...

...first description of his experiment, in the opening paragraph of the preface, speaks of the poems as "fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." The word "fit," which occurs several times in the preface,2 thus in the poem takes on the double meaning...

..."Preface" von 1800 für die Orientierung einer experimentell zu erneuernden Dichtungssprache an der "selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid Sensation", die aus Gründen der Natürlichkeit, Ursprünglichkeit, Emotionalität und unelaborierten Expressivität...

...romance of pragmatism, as Poirier reminds us, included a hope that just as poetry was only an extension of "the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation," so philosophy might become a generalization of the ad hoc inventiveness of ordinary life. In this sense,...

...contrasting values placed on literary tradition by Wordsworth's insistence in the 'Preface' on adopting 'a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation' (LB, p. 241), and the concern expressed in his letter to De Quincey about the 'proper influence of...

...William Wordsworth announced his Romanticist revolution in his "Preface to the Lyrical Ballads" as "a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." Ezra Pound launched his Modernist experiments by denouncing the nineteenth century as a "rather blurry,...

...knew he was putting his feet in his mouth. In the opening paragraph he referred to his 'experiment' in 'fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the...real language of men in a state of vivid sensation' (LB 741) without pausing over the work of 'fitting', as though there were no ultimate contradiction...

...unreasonably attached to modern books of moral philosophy. ii Preface to Lyrical Ballads (isoo/isoi) The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was pubtished, as an ^experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fttting...

...to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800), in which he said that the first volume had been published, "as an experiment, which, I hoped, might...metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of man in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted,...

...Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798), Wordsworth wrote: 'The first volume of these Poems . . . was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might...fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the REF.48/18. Magdalen College, Oxford. 6th December 1948. My dear Mr. Allen, Did you ever read two amusing...