... revolution's betrayal of its origins they retained strong demographic beliefs, manifested in their collaborative work. With this merging of artistic and social change, their revolutionary ideals prescribed a rejection of contrived higher-class sensibilities and acceptance of basic human passions and characters. As a new movement, the Lyrical Ballads incorporate a certain amount of instability in their contrivance of an unexplored poetic territory ... strain of eighteenth century verse in which nature became merely a backdrop by which to express the morose sentiments of sensibility. For h...

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