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The Preface to Lyrical Ballads functions as a manifesto for which movement?
ARestoration drama
BAugustan satire
CPre-Raphaelitism
DEnglish Romanticism
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. English Romanticism
1. The Preface defines the principles of Romantic poetics.
2. It is the most influential English Romantic critical document.
3. It launches the movement with Coleridge as collaborator.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #8905 — Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) — "Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)"_
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