Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

William Wordsworth

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Wordsworth, William. Lyrical ballads, with Other Poems. Vol. 1, Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1802, preface.

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Wordsworth, William. "Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800/1802)." Lyrical Ballads & Other Poems. Wordsworth Editions, 2002.

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