![]() ![]() The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement. Of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet Of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort Use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection ![]() It was published, as an experiment, which, I hoped, might be of some The first Volume of these Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. ![]()
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