Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was written by_______________?
Correct answer: A. Wordsworth
- A. Wordsworth
- B. Coleridge
- C. Southey
- D. Shelly
Explanation
Wordsworth wrote the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, especially the expanded 1800 and 1802 versions, to explain the collection's theory of poetry and poetic language. Coleridge contributed poems and later responded to Wordsworth's ideas in Biographia Literaria.
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