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Whitman's commitment to validate 'ordinary people' as worthy poetic subjects parallels Wordsworth's project of:

AReligious orthodoxy
BStrictly classical decorum
CAristocratic patronage verse
DTreating 'low and rustic life' as the proper subject of poetry
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Correct answer: D. Treating 'low and rustic life' as the proper subject of poetry
1. Both writers shift the poetic subject to non-elite, lived experience. 2. Wordsworth's 'low and rustic life' anticipates Whitman's democratic 'ordinary people.' 3. The trans-Atlantic line of influence is foundational. _Source: Project Gutenberg #1322 — Whitman's Leaves of Grass — "Validating vernacular speech, physical sensation, and ordinary people"_ // _Source: Project Gutenberg #8905 — Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) — "low and rustic life"_
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