"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"

This definition of poetry as 'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' that 'takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility' is from William Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800), a foundational text of English Romanticism. Wordsworth argued poetry arises from emotion remembered in calm moments, not from direct passionate experience. John Keats (A) wrote 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and other odes but is not associated with this specific definition. William Shakespeare (C) was a Renaissance playwright/poet. Christina Rossetti (D) was a Victorian poet.