... Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, Wordsworth describes the key elements that constitute ... Biographia Literaria, and how this definition ties in with Wordsworths comments in his Preface. Although Wordsworths "Preface" and Coleridges definition of Imagination illuminate the meaning and purpose o...

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Between the dates of 1789 to 1824, British authors began to write with their hearts, rather than their heads. Logic, structure, and rationality are eliminated in this era, and writers began to create works formed around humanity. Texts reflected ... a work that transcended expression rather than mechanical conventions of diction and form. Starting with Blake, who is claimed as spearheading this era and being platformed as the pioneer of these authors, a new literary role was formed which exemplified borderless, free flowing tests which centered around the freedom within the imagination. One ...

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