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."
==Further reading==
* Kevin M. Saylor. "Wordsworth's Prudent Conservatism: Social Reform in the Lyrical Ballads," ''Modern Age'' — Volume 43, Number 2; Spring 2001 [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/43_02/saylor.pdf onlineedition]* G. Singh. "F.R. Leavis on Wordsworth," ''Modern Age'' Volume 43, Number 3; Summer 2001 [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/43_03/singh.pdf online edition]
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