This is reminiscent to Wordsworth’s conception of imagination as a creative power. According to Jibanananda Imagination is the power that enables the poet to overcome the barrier between the particular and the external and transforms the apparent world into a world of higher import and the poet conceives the essential nature of his object and sees it in its basic reality. Wordsworth continued to revise the Preface for each new edition of the Lyrical Ballads. To the 1802 Preface Wordsworth also added an Appendix on Poetic Diction, in which the history and nature of ‘poetic diction’ is considered. The nature of poetic pleasure is also considered. The poet is declared to be superior to the man of science. The most significant addition to this Preface was an account of the nature and function of a poet. The Preface was enlarged and improved for the edition of poems brought out in 1802. A more elaborate preface was added to the 1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads, which also contained many new poems. He said that the poems were in the nature of an experiment written to find out if themes of common life were suitable for poetry. The Lyrical Ballads came out first in 1798, accompanied by a short Advertisement or foreword, in which Wordsworth had set forth the main points of his argument. Wordsworth made a number of revisions in it over several years. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads has, with the passage of time, assumed a position of abiding importance and significance in the history of English literature.
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