To whom "poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful passion." ?
Correct answer: C. Wordsworth
- A. Keats
- B. Shelley
- C. Wordsworth
- D. Coleridge
Explanation
Wordsworth defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquillity, in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads. The quotation is therefore associated with Wordsworth, not Coleridge or Shelley.
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