...language of men". The purpose of the poems, he says, is to deal with incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...possible, in a selection of language really used by men... For Wordsworth, too, there is virtue in the vernacular, something uniquely essential, elemental, natural...

...turn to the "humble and rustic," and there "to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to ... throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect."16 Similar ideas were part of the fabric of German thought as well. Novalis described the need...

...said, "to choose incidents and situations from common life" and to describe them in a way that gave them "a certain colouring of imagination, whereby...should be presented to the mind in an unusual way..." William continued writing and publishing poetry. At first, some people did not understand his work...

...He unites this determination with a desire to "chuse incidents and situations from common life" and "to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way."42 By describing such events using "simple and unelaborated expressions" Wordsworth hopes that...

...blood" and focuses, much as the Lyrical Ballads do, on "incidents and situations from common life . . . whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect" (see the 1800 preface). The narrative contains accounts of Boone's "captivity," carefully noting...

...was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate them, throughout, äs far äs possible in a selection of language really used by...of Imagination, whereby ordinary things should be represented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and obove all, to make these incidents...

...to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, to choose incidents from "common life," presented in the "language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of the imagination." Thus, "ordinary things" would be "presented to the mind" so as to reveal "the primary...

...principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout,...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing...

...Browning recalls Wordsworth's project in his poetry to 'choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as...possible, in a selection of language really used by men'.61 Her evocation of the seminal work by the former Poet Laureate, then, exposes the complicity...

...principal poetic object in Lyrical Ballads 'was to choose incidents and situations from common life in a selection of language really used by men and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of the imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way'...