Final AP11 post-mortem

Enjoy this fascinating (if a bit old-fashioned in style) read.  This was the source for your final writing prompt:

It's from the manifesto of Romantic poetry, William Wordsworth's preface to the Lyrical Ballads, a book he published along with fellow early-romantic mover and shaker, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Here's a brief summary that does a nice job of encapsulating some of the ideas (including the ones from the excerpt I gave you, which comes about 3/4 of the way in, (paragraphs 25-26).