1. Wordsworth
He believes that the "Author makes a formal engagement that he will gratify certain known habits of association" and in a state of excitement, these chains of association breakdown (574). ... Before the reader can pass judgment on Wordsworth for leaving the realm of "flesh and blood," it is necessary to look at the author. ... He also explains: "if the poets subject be judiciously chosen, it will naturally, and upon fit occasion, lead him to passions the language of which, must necessarily be dignified and variegated, and alive with metaphors and figures" (577). Wordsworth went to great meas...
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