...maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language"; and because peasants "hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of langnage is originally derived," and " from their rank in life, and the sameness and narrow circle...

...indeed, from what appears to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust), because such men hourly communicate with...their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions."1 It matters comparatively little whether Wordsworth's statement of a theory of poetical...

...indeed, from what appears to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or disgust), because such men hourly communicate with...their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions."1 It matters comparatively little whether Wordsworth's statement of a theory of poetical...

...maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language'; because rustics ‘hourly communicate with the best objects from which...part of language is originally derived, and because . . . being less under the influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple...

...of men in a state of vivid sensation." He adopted, he said, the language of men in rustic life, ' ' because such men hourly communicate with the best...which the best part of language is originally derived. ' ' In the matter of poetic diction Wordsworth did not, in his practice, adhere to the doctrine of...

...The language of common life, purified from its defects, is to be adopted, because men of that station "hourly communicate with the best objects from which...part of language is originally derived; and because, . . . being less under the action of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple...

...strongest motive appears clearly in the short sentence where he says that in a humble condition of life " men hourly communicate with the best objects from...the best part of language is originally derived." Coleridge made short work of this philological theory. But its interest remains ; for it shows that...

...the preface to the Lyrical Ballads he writes: "The language of these men ( peasants) is adopted . . . because such men hourly communicate with the best...which the best part of language is originally derived. . . . Such a language is more permanent and far more philosophical . . . than that which is frequently...

...language spoken by the class which he described was, when purified from its defects, the best of all, " because such men hourly communicate with the best...influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings and emotions in simple and unelaborated expressions." It is, consequently, his opinion, that it is impossible...

...language of common life, purified from its defects, is to be adopted, because men of that station " hourly communicate with the best objects from which...part of language is originally derived; and because, . . . being less under the action of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple...