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The poet's duty, in Wordsworth's account, includes ensuring his work is:
ARhymed in heroic couplets
BEnlightened, taste exalted, and affections ameliorated
CApproved by the court
DFree of dialect
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Enlightened, taste exalted, and affections ameliorated
1. Wordsworth assigns the poet a moral-aesthetic duty in the Preface.
2. The triad — enlightened, taste exalted, affections ameliorated — is explicit.
3. It binds artistic skill to ethical effect on the reader.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #8905 — Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) — "must necessarily be in some degree enlightened, his taste exalted, and his affections ameliorated"_
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