Author(s): Alex Latter; Rachel Teubner

Short Stories, Essays, Drama & Poetry

Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth?s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century.?But to the generation of Romantic writers that emerged in its wake, the Preface announced a new understanding of the creative process and of the high purposes of poetry: to reveal the human condition, and to awaken in its readers the profoundest emotions and the most enduring truths of existence.