...object proposed in these poems," he wrote in the preface to the second edition of "Lyrical Ballads," " was to choose incidents and situations from common...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...

...object proposed in these poems," he wrote in the preface to the second edition of "Lyrical Ballads," " was to choose incidents and situations from common...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...

...are to be sought in verse of this character ? " The poet himself answers that his principal object " was to choose incidents and situations from common...and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination whereby ordinary tilings should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect;...

...are to be sought in verse of this character ? " The poet himself answers that his principal object " was to choose incidents and situations from common...and at the same time to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect;...

...substituted for the Advertisement, in the edition of 1800, he writes : The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...possible, in a selection of language really used by men. But though the Preface removes an obvious confusion of language, it brings into relief a real confusion...

...The writer's theory was expressed in such statements as these: "The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect." "There will also be found in these pieces little of what is usually called poetic diction;...

...when his duty is ascertained, prevents him from performing it. The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...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...

...the Ballads. In the Preface he says concerning his purpose : " The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...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...

...incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout in a selection of the language really used by men, and at the same time...things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect " ; and he goes on to say that " humble and rustic life was generally chosen because in that...

...edition of 1800 agree very accurately with the following statement: " The principal object proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations...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...