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What best completes this statement about "London, 1802?"

Wordsworth considers his contemporaries to be _____.
polite
heroic
progressive
selfish

User Lenny D
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maybe selfish, not sure

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The correct answer is: selfish. Wordsworth believed that the poet should write in a language that ordinary people could easily understand, he was a very influential romantic poet. Together with Samuel Coleridge he created the Lyrical Ballads. According to Wordsworth nineteenth-century England has lost its ancient virtues. Three of the factors that contributed to Wordsworth's disappointment were: b. the death of his brother, c. the failure of the French Revolution, e. alienation from Coleridge

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