I have no doubt that, in the present state of society, a Poet, by the very act of writing in metre, does in some degree separate himself from the mass of men, and from their immediate sympathy.
— William Wordsworth Modern

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Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems

Date / Period

1800

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9431/9431-h/9431-h.htm

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