I have no doubt that, in the present state of society, a Poet, by the very act of writing in metre, does in some degree separate himself from the mass of men, and from their immediate sympathy.
— William Wordsworth Modern

Romantic poet

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Preface to Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems

Date: 1800

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