Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction

2. Wordsworth’s second edition of the “Lyrical
Ballads” – 1800
“The Literary criticism of William Wordsworth is
usually considered the manifesto of the English
romantic movement, the signal for the break with
the age of the neo-classicism”.

3. Theory
A New Theory A new Theory A new Theory
of man of Nature of Poetry

4. -General poetic diction is choice of words.
-”Diction” “Poetic diction” Were current in the
Augustan age of English Literature.

5. The Poem
Subject
Style
matter

7. “There neither is, nor can be, any difference between
the language of prose and metrical composition.”

8. -The language of poetry
“really used by men”
-The language of men
-Prose and poetry

9. Conclusion