Wordsworth published his first works of poetry in 1793, including "Descriptive Sketches" and "An Evening Walk". He would later publish, with the help of his friend [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], the ''[[Lyrical Ballads]]''. In the preface to the ''Lyrical Ballads'', Wordsworth declared that the book's object was "to choose incidents and situations from common life and to relate or describe them... in a selection of language really used by men, tracing in them the primary laws of our nature." | Wordsworth published his first works of poetry in 1793, including "Descriptive Sketches" and "An Evening Walk". He would later publish, with the help of his friend [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], the ''[[Lyrical Ballads]]''. In the preface to the ''Lyrical Ballads'', Wordsworth declared that the book's object was "to choose incidents and situations from common life and to relate or describe them... in a selection of language really used by men, tracing in them the primary laws of our nature." |