• Simran Kamboj

Wordsworth was not alone in his attempt to start this new kind of poetry. He acknowledges that his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge supplied some of the poems in the collection, including “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Although Wordsworth says that his friend and his own writing style and subject of poetry are completely similar but Coleridge in his interpretation of Preface is out there to refute Wordsworth and his endeavor to write a defense of his new kind of poetry. (Bialostosky). Wordsworth notes that he was not willing initially to write the preface as any kind of systematic defense of this new type of poetry because he does not want to reason or rather convince anyone into liking these poems. He believed that those who would like these poems will read them with interest and take pleasure out of them. He was also well aware that those who would not like these poems will dislike them more than commonly. Another reason why he was not willing to write a defense is that a defense of this new kind of poetry would have required much larger space than that appropriate to a preface.

Wordsworth Preface Summary

"A Summary and Analysis of Wordsworth's Preface to The Lyrical Ballads", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.b759-b762, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209193.pdf

"A Summary and Analysis of Wordsworth's Preface to The Lyrical Ballads", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppb759-b762, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209193.pdf