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The 'two-step' Wordsworth describes for poetic composition is:
AFeel deeply, then recollect in tranquility
BObserve nature, then versify
CRead classics, then imitate
DPray, then write
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Feel deeply, then recollect in tranquility
1. Step 1: the original 'powerful feelings.'
2. Step 2: 'emotion recollected in tranquility' — a later contemplative phase.
3. Composition occurs during the regenerated emotion of step 2.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #8905 — Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) — "emotion recollected in tranquility"_
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