...imagination." The phrase has its place in Wordsworth's thesis that "the principal object . . . proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination whereby ordinary things should be represented to the mind in an unusual aspect."2...

...Wordsworth defended both the goals of his poetic and his methodology. The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing...

...poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge published in 1798, he wrote, 'The principal object, then, proposed in these poems, was to choose incidents and situations...and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination. . . . Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition...

...Wordsworth. In the preface to the 1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads he writes, "The principal object, then, in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...possible in a selection of language really used by men." One takes his phrase the language used by men to mean common everyday unadorned speech. Though Wordsworth...

...in contrast with decadent and idle entertainment. His principal purpose in his poems, he tells us, was to choose incidents and situations from common...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect . . . Humble and rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential...

...his poems was "to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, as far as was possible, in a selection of language...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way"3. The with a genre, poetry, and a literary period. Romanticism, that particularly attract me,...

...attempting without resorting to situational or linguistic extremes: The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing...

..."experiment," in the "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" 1: 123, 125: The principle object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing...