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What term did Wordsworth use to describe the state of mind necessary for poetic creation?

ATranquility

BImagination

CReverie

DInspiration

Answer:

A. Tranquility

Read Explanation:

Wordsworth also gives his famous definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility", and calls his own poems in the book "experimental". A fourth and final edition of Lyrical Ballads was published in 1805.


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