They wrote and criticized according to what they considered the proper and acceptable rules of taste. By contrast, Shakespeare they found crude. They admired Virgil and Horace for correctness of phrase and polished urbanity and grace. The neo-classically oriented writers of the so-called Augustan Age (1701 to about 1750), Swift, Gay, Addison and Steele, Pope, and to a lesser extent Richardson and Fielding, chose Latin authors of the time of the Pax Romana (hence the name Augustan) as their models. What Burns, Blake, and Cowper, his contemporaries, wanted to do and could not, he did. It has been remarked that he was one of the giants almost single-handedly he revivified English poetry from its threatened death from emotional starvation. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" that "takes its origin from emotion, recollected in tranquillity.By way of understanding and appraisal, it must first be asked what Wordsworth set out to do and then to what degree he succeeded.Expression of feeling is more important than action or plot.Everyday language is best suited for poetry.Ordinary life is the best subject for poetry.The four guidelines of the manifesto include: It has come to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement.
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is an essay, composed by William Wordsworth, for the second edition published in 1800 of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802.
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