【正确答案】正确答案：In Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth set forth his principle of poetry. As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical tradition the criteria in their poetical creations, he based his own poetical principle that " all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling. " He appealed directly to individual sensations as the foundation in the creation and appreciation of poetry. He also held that the function of poetry lies in its power to give an unexpected splendour to familiar and commonplace things. As to the language used in poetry, he " endeavored to bring language near to the real language of men," " by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men" to a state of vivid sensation. These principles helped to crumble the theoretical foundations of the classical school of English poetry and to inspire a new generation of poets. So Lyrical Ballads served as the milestone to mark the beginning of English Romanticism.