...poems were 'experiments' written 'to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure'. As with most plans, though, what seemed so obvious to Wordsworth and Coleridge after Lyrical Ballads...

...were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. Readers accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers,1 if they persist...

...innovators, sponsors of "experiments" to "ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." Toward this end, the poetry privileged rural society in close proximity to nature and an array of "low"...

...were written "chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure". The frankly experimental nature of the work prompts a peculiarly halanced negotiation hetween defence...

...had composed "chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." We were interested in conducting similar experiments with the help of modern writers and artists. And...

...were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. William Wordsworth, advertisement to The Lyrical Ballads (1798) The playwrights who provided the best...

..."were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." 11 The key question that introduced readers to Lyrical Ballads was whether ordinary language could...

..."were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." The world he likes to describe is a world of uneducated people who struggle to describe feelings that...

.... . written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure." What follows, however, suggests that they are experimental in another sense as well. "Readers accustomed...

..."were written chiefly with a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure."" I think we should take seriously his claim that speech based on the spoken language is preferable to...