Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction; a Study of the Historical And Personal Background of the Lyrical Ballads

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• This is now in the library of Mrs. Henry St John, Ithaca, N. Y.
Digitized by Google CHAPTER 4.
COLERIDGE AND HIS CIRCLE.
While Wordsworth was thus attaining to the practice of simplicity, Coleridge and Lamb had been developing the theory of it; and were reUgiously seeking out literary models of a style more pure and plain. The beginnings of this effort, which ended in the Lyrical Bdlads, are to be fotmd in the teaching of their doughty old schoolmaster, at Christ's Hospital — ^the Rev. James
...Boyer.^ ^'He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocrites to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid,' writes Coleridge.* 'He habituated me to compare Lucretius (in such extracts as I then read), Terence, and above all the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the, so called, silver and brazen ages; but with even those of the Augustan era; and on grounds of plain sense and imiversal logic to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness, both of their thoughts and diction.

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