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Quotation from Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“They 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 and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (spoken by The authors)

Lyrical Ballads, Advertisement (Gutenberg #9622: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798))

The stated purpose of the experimental poems.

Citation: "They 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 and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads, Advertisement (Gutenberg #9622: Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798)). (id lyrical-ballads-q4)

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