...about what he is arguing in the Preface is borne out by his opening statement of intentions: to fit to metrical arrangement 'a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation'.100 Although Wordsworth wishes to disclaim any allegiance to the rules governing the polite...

...impressionistic mind. Wordsworth famously denned Romanticism by its subjectivity when he called poetry "a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation"; it is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected...