Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1716 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"To Be Considered as Experiments"
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The idea
The Advertisement says the majority of the poems are to be considered as experiments, written to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure. The subject is diction, and the method is a test.
In practice
Experiments in ordinary speech.
Where people slip
The subject is diction itself.
Your place on the trail
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