"Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility." Who has defined poetry in these words ?
Correct answer: B. Wordsworth
- A. Shelley
- B. Wordsworth
- C. Coleridge
- D. Matthew Arnold
Explanation
Wordsworth defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquillity in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. The phrase therefore belongs to his Romantic theory of poetry.
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