...indeed from what appears to be its real defects, from all lasting and rational causes of dislike or vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, 20 Or of...alone.,-- ^ These beauteous forms. Through a long arde of their intercourse, being less under the influence of social vanity, they convey their feelings...

...Humble and rustic life was generally chosen — The language, too, of these men has been adopted — because such men hourly communicate with the best...and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions." Not only Wordsworth's diction, therefore, but his themes are drawn from the common life about him....

...the preface to the Lyrical Ballads he writes: "The language of these men ( peasants) is adopted . . . because such men hourly communicate with the best...which the best part of language is originally derived. . . . Such a language is more permanent and far more philosophical . . . than that which is frequently...

...of three affirmations. First : The real language of humble and rustic men has a supreme excellence "because such men hourly communicate with the best...the best part of language is originally derived." Second: "A selection of language really used" by such men, when "fitted to metrical arrangement," becomes...

...subject recognizes the lowly subjects in his poems because their rank placing them "less under the action of social vanity [,] they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions."45 His deliberate extension of the subject matter of poetry beyond the norms of neoclassic...

...strongly and express what they feel more plainly than other people, and, second, "because such men communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived." Country people are closer to the sources of human behavior and language; they are more nearly original...

...same version of Wordsworth to link Leavis's "naive mimeticism" with "Wordsworth's archaic emphasis on 'the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived'" (31). The more familiar figure of Coleridge would appear to continue to exert considerable power over...

...language," whose "passions. ..are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of Nature," who "hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived" (Prose, 1, 1 24). In an attempt to escape from "arbitrary and capricious habits of expression," W'ordsworth...

...society in which that language would undergo modes of mediation that would hardly involve communication "with the best objects from which the best part of language is originally derived." Indeed, a few pages further into the "Preface," Wordsworth refers somewhat bitterly to the "multitude...

...incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. The language too of these men is adopted [...] because such men hourly communicate with the best objects from which the best pan of language is originally derived, and because, from their rank in society and the sameness and...