Can you dig what my man Wordsworth has to say on the subject?

Question

ADVERTISEMENT

TO LYRICAL BALLADS

by William Wordsworth

“It is the honorable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind. The evidence of this fact is to be sought, not in the writing of the Critics, but in those of the Poets themselves.”

Answer 1

You are attracting our interest, MN. Post some more stuff.

Answer 2

There is a poet speaking on a poet speaking on poetry...

Answer 3

And the greatest character of a poet is that he keeps no subject away. Or no subject keeps him away. Like the man above. TD is a poet of all subjects and province.