In his " Preface to Lyrical Ballads ", which is called the " manifesto " of English Romantic criticism, Wordsworth calls his poems " experimental.

** Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

* William Wordsworth: Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads

In many respects, their criticism echoes what William Wordsworth wrote in Preface to Lyrical Ballads to instigate the Romantic movement in British poetry over a century earlier, criticising the gauche and pompous school which then pervaded, and seeking to bring poetry to the layman.

* Preface to Lyrical Ballads

* Preface to Lyrical Ballads 1802

Similarly, William Wordsworth had said that poetry should come from " emotions recollected in tranquility " ( Preface to Lyrical Ballads, emphasis added ).

Wordsworth himself in the Preface to his and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads defined good poetry as “ the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings ,” though in the same sentence he goes on to clarify this statement by asserting that nonetheless any poem of value must still be composed by a man “ possessed of more than usual organic sensibility has also thought long and deeply ;” he also emphasises the importance of the use of meter in poetry ( which he views as one of the key features that differentiates poetry from prose ).

In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second ( 1800 ) edition of Lyrical Ballads ( 1798 ).

* William Wordsworth, " Preface to Lyrical Ballads " ( 1802 )

# REDIRECT Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

Following is a Preface that gives thanks to the Father and ends leading into the " Sanctus et Benedictus " ( Holy, holy, holy Lord ... Blessed is he who comes ....).

In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.

Marx's clearest formulation of his " Materialist Conception of History " was in the 1859 Preface to his book " A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy ," whose relevant passage is reproduced here:

At priestly ordination the bishop imposes hands upon the deacon who is by that matter and the form of the consecratory Preface ( Liturgy ) | preface ordained to the priesthood.

In The Grammar of Science, Preface to the 2nd Edition, 1900, Karl Pearson wrote, " There are many signs that a sound idealism is surely replacing, as a basis for natural philosophy, the crude materialism of the older physicists.

In some later anthologies of Coleridge's poetry, the Preface is dropped along with the subtitle denoting its fragmentary and dream nature.

Sometimes, the Preface is included in modern editions but lacks both the first and final paragraphs.

It is possible that Coleridge was displeased by the lack of unity in the poem and added a note about the structure to the Preface to explain his thoughts.

When the Preface is dropped, the poem seems to compare the act of poetry with the might of Kubla Khan instead of the loss of inspiration causing the work to have a more complex depiction of the poetic power.

Taken together, the Preface could connect with the first half of the poem to suggest that the poem is from the view of a dreaming narrator, or it could connect with the second half of the poem to show how a reader is to interpret the lines by connecting himself with the persona in a negative manner.

The poet of the Preface is a dreamer who must write and the poet of the poem is a vocal individual, but both are poets who lose inspiration.

Only the poet of the poem feels that he can recover the vision, and the Preface, like a Coleridge poem that is quoted in it, The Picture, states that visions are unrecoverable.

Its Preface is world famous and has been used in many studies of the creative process as a signal instance in which a poem has come to us directly from the unconscious.

In 1981, Kathleen Wheeler contrasts the Crewe Manuscript note with the Preface: " Contrasting this relatively factual, literal, and dry account of the circumstances surrounding the birth of the poem with the actual published preface, one illustrates what the latter is not: it is not a literal, dry, factual account of this sort, but a highly literary piece of composition, providing the verse with a certain mystique.

Hegel, for example, stated in his Preface to the Phenomenology of Spirit that a subject is constituted by " the process of reflectively mediating itself with itself.

Hegel begins his definition of the subject at a standpoint derived from Aristotelian physics: " the unmoved which is also self-moving " ( Preface, pgph.

::"... the bifurcation of the simple ; it is the doubling which sets up opposition, and then again the negation of this indifferent diversity and of its anti-thesis " ( Preface, pgph.

" Astrology itself is mentioned only twice in Nostradamus's Preface and 41 times in the Centuries themselves, but more frequently in his dedicatory Letter to King Henri II.

This view is confirmed by the " Prague Fragments " and by certain Old Glagolitic liturgical fragments brought from Jerusalem to Kiev and there discovered by Saresnewsky — probably the oldest document for the Slavonic tongue ; these adhere closely to the Latin type, as is shown by the words " Mass ," " Preface ," and the name of one Felicitas.

In his Author ’ s Preface, Bradley addresses the book “ to educated readers unversed in philology ,” and he succeeds in popularizing his specialty and making it readable rather than resorting to jargon, which he considered an affront to plain English.

Heywood's best known plays are his domestic tragedies and comedies ( plays set among the English middle classes ); his masterpiece is generally considered to be A Woman Killed with Kindness ( acted 1603 ; printed 1607 ), a domestic tragedy about an adulterous wife, and a widely admired Plautine farce The English Traveller ( acted approximately 1627 ; printed 15 July 1633 ), which is also known for its informative " Preface ", giving Heywood an opportunity to inform the reader about his prolific creative output.

The Bravo of Venice is considered “ very chaste ” in its translation by adhering strongly to the original, a fact which Lewis notes in the Preface.

The Preface to the Phenomenology, all by itself, is considered one of Hegel's major works and a major text in the history of philosophy, because in it he sets out the core of his philosophical method and what distinguishes it from that of any previous philosophy, especially that of his German Idealist predecessors ( Kant, Fichte, and Schelling ).

The title of his first collection apparently was a mild disappointment to Roughead, stating in his " Personal Preface " to his third collection, Glengarry's Way and Other Studies, that "... I have always considered that my venture suffered in its baptism ... of those three fateful words two at least were unhappily chosen.

Arnold defined culture as " the disinterested endeavour after man's perfection " ( Preface ) and most famously wrote that having culture meant to " know the best that has been said and thought in the world "— a specifically literary definition, also embracing Philosophy, which is now rather less likely to be considered an essential component of High Culture, at least in the English-speaking cultures.

According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

The Preface to the poem suggests that the poem was not supposed to be printed, that it was a fragmentary work that he was unable to complete, and that the work itself was provided to him through involuntary inspiration.

The account of Cublai Can in Purchas's work, discussed in Coleridge's Preface, connects the idea of paradise with luxury and sensual pleasure.

Criticism during the 1970s and 1980s emphasized the importance of the Preface while praising the work.

In his Preface he refers to " Teuffel's admirable history, without which many chapters in the present work could not have attained completeness " and also gives credit to Wagner.

* 2003: Preface to Aventuriers du monde 1866 – 1914: Les grands explorateurs français au temps des premiers photographes ( L ' Iconoclaste, 2003 ), collective work.

Messiaen wrote in the Preface to the score that the work was inspired by text from the Book of Revelation ( Rev 10: 1-2, 5-7, King James Version ):

In his Translator's Preface, Müller wrote, " The bridge of thoughts and sighs that spans the whole history of the Aryan world has its first arch in the Veda, its last in Kant's Critique .… While in the Veda we may study the childhood, we may study in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason the perfect manhood of the Aryan mind .… The materials are now accessible, and the English-speaking race, the race of the future, will have in Kant's Critique another Aryan heirloom, as precious as the Veda — a work that may be criticised, but can never be ignored.

More recently, the Critical Theory of Adorno and Marcuse has been criticized as being a degeneration of the original Frankfurt school, particularly the work of empirical psychologist Erich Fromm, who did surveys and experiments to study the development of personality in response to economic stress and social change ( Michael Macoby's Preface to Fromm's Social Character in a Mexican Village ).

* Dublin Barracks — A Brief History of Collins Barracks, by Mairead Dunleavy, National Museum of Ireland, 2002 ( largely based on work by PD O ' Donnell, as acknowledged in Preface and Acknowledgements ).

In the Preface, Rescher identifies the work as an attempt to “ synthesize and systematize an aporetic procedure for dealing with information overload ( of ‘ cognitive dissonance ,’ as it is sometimes called )” ( ix ).

As stated in the book's Preface, it is " a translation of part I of Max Weber's Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, which was in turn originally published as volume III of the collaborative work Grundriss der Sozialoekonomik.

The word " robinsonade " was coined by the German writer Johann Gottfried Schnabel in the Preface of his 1731 work Die Insel Felsenburg ( The Island Stronghold ).

The life of Virgil prefixed to Dryden's translation, and a " Preface to the Pastorals with a short defence of Virgil, against some of the reflections of Monsieur Fontenella ," both ascribed at one time to Walsh, were the work of Dr Knightly Chetwood ( 1650 – 1720 ).

* Preface: is the great prayer of thanksgiving for the work of Salvation or for some special aspect of it ; have been allowed to be used in France since 1978, in Italy since 1980, and the English version was approved in 1995.