...his language, the 'natural' authority that his poems acquire by being written in a language which, 'arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings,...which is frequently substituted for it by Poets'. The Preface, according to Byron, expounds a 'system of prosaic raving', and the crucial thing about...

...the action of social vanity" they convey feelings simply and directly: "Accordingly such a language arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings...permanent and a far more philosophical language" than elevated poetic diction which separates us from our usual sympathies ("Preface," 156-57). In other...

...Locke and Wilkins in the great English quest for the perfectly signifying tongue: "Such a language arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings is a more permanent and a tar more philosophical language than that which is frequently substituted for it by Poets" (245). Just...

...convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions. Accordingly such a language arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings...frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon themselves and their art in proportion as they separate themselves...

...convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions Accordingly such a language arising out of repeated experience and regular feelings...frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon themselves and their art in proportion as they separate themselves...

...expressions' of ordinary people living in '[l]ow and rustic life', which Wordsworth had pugnaciously called a more permanent and a far more philosophical language...frequently substituted for it by Poets, who think that they are conferring honour upon themselves and their art in proportion as they separate themselves...