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'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.' This statement from William Wordsworth's 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads' is primarily directed against which prevailing literary practice?
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- 1Symbolist obscurity
- 2Medieval allegorical tradition
- 3Neoclassical decorum and artificial diction✓
- 4Aristotelian catharsis
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Neoclassical decorum and artificial diction
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