TAILIEUCHUNG - Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 18: Theory of poetic diction

Wordsworth’s theory of poetic diction was a result of desire to find a suitable language for the new territory of human life which was conquering for period treatment. He brought out the lyrical Ballads”With a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure” | THEORY OF POETIC DICTION Wordsworth’s theory of poetic diction was a result of desire to find a suitable language for the new territory of human life which was conquering for period treatment. He brought out the lyrical Ballads”With a view to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure” Since he aimed at dealing with humble and rustic life in his poetry,he advocates the use of “ a selection of language really used by men in a state of vivid sensation” Wordsworth believed that a poet is essentially a man speaking to men,so he must use the language of real men. LANGUAGE OF PROSE & POETRY The neo classical poets advocated that the language of poetry was different from the language of prose where as Wordsworth declared that “It may be safely affirmed that there neither is,nor can be,any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition” The principal object,then,proposed in

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• The art of judging
• Theory of poetic diction
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• Theory of Poetry
• Purposes of literaly criticism
• Peloponessian war
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• Aristotle’s poetics
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• Samuel Johnson
• Classical criticism
• The lyrical ballade
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