What three ways did William Wordsworth see his poerty as different from others in the past?
I’m not a big Wordsworth fan and only have Lyrical Ballads (which I got more for Coleridge). In Wordsworth’s Preafce to the second edition he says: “The Principle object then which I proposed to myself in these Poems was to make the incidents of common life interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.” I think the main ways in which he regarded himself as different to the Augustan poets was in terms of the language he used (that of everyday speech), of subject (“ordinary” things) and the way a poet reacts to the world (reactive to nature). Just my thoughts, but I’m no Wordsworth scholar.
