... 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 Romantic literature, among them the role of the Imagination. However, before one can understand the role of the Imagination in Romantic ... for a Romantic poet has the "disposition to be affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present, an ability of conjuring up in himself passions" (Wordsworth, Preface, 577). I...

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