Status Updates From Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

falling out with your co-writer midway through an essay and writing an additional 6 pages that completely contradict your argument out of spite was very funny of you wordsworth well done

fuck it, if its on Goodreads, it counts as a book

my house, my rules

mans cannot answer a single questions without thirty run-on sentences i swear

“…there neither is… any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition… they both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothes may be said to be of the same substance”

For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.

For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this... It has therefore appeared to me, that to endeavour to produce or enlarge this capability is one of the best services in which, at any period, a Writer can be engaged.