William Wordsworth - Preface to the Lyrical Ballads: Wordsworth's emphasis on "feeling" in poetry has been influential. How does he envision the relationship between emotion, thought, and the poetic process?
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Wordsworth believed that poetry should be purely spontaneous and devoid of any intellectual reflection.
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Wordsworth advocates for a process where powerful feelings are recollected in tranquility, allowing the poet to reflect upon and shape those emotions into meaningful poetic expression, suggesting a dynamic interplay between initial emotional experience and subsequent intellectual contemplation in the creative act.
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Wordsworth prioritized intellectual reasoning over emotional expression in poetry.
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Wordsworth believed that the poet should directly transcribe their immediate feelings without any artistic mediation.