Question

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

• A. Tranquility
• B. Imagination
• C. Reverie
• D. Inspiration

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Tranquility

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.