I'm a foreigner searching for information about motifs in Lyrical Ballads. I've already tried on the net At present I want to know some opinions of the English interested in Wordsworth. Can tou tell me sth about such motifs as.. child ,love, death, grave, guilt and responsibility etc.

You seem to be asking two separate questions here. One about ballads, another about Wordsworth. Here's a link to help you with the ballads: [www.poeticbyway.com] />

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motifs in Lyrical Ballads

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Also, see Coleridge's Biographia Literaria at Gutenberg (do a find for CHAPTER XIV), where Sammy was to take supernatural subjects and William was do to those from everyday things:

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"In this idea originated the plan of the LYRICAL BALLADS; in which it
was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and
characters supernatural, or at least romantic; yet so as to transfer
from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth
sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing
suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic
faith. Mr. Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as
his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and
to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the
mind's attention to the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the
loveliness and the wonders of the world before us; an inexhaustible
treasure, but for which, in consequence of the film of familiarity and
selfish solicitude, we have eyes, yet see not, ears that hear not, and
hearts that neither feel nor understand."

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