The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is an easy which was written by William Wordsworth.In which he discussed about what is poet rather than who is poet? And he also discussed about poetic diction,language of poem. Question.1] What is the basic difference between the poetic creed of 'Classicism' and 'Romanticism'? Romanticism and Classicism are two ideologies.Its all about the technique of writing certain things for example the way of write poetry or the subject which one choose.It may be something more than the school of thoughts and ideologies . - Intellect and Imagination Classicism also included Neoclassicism which was prevalent in England during the latter half of the 18th century. In which intellect was considered to be the ruling guiding principal.For example in the poem of classicist like Alexander Pope and Dryden we can fin...