Complete the following sentence. Wordsworths advocacy of poets drawing on the language really used by men in his preface to Lyrical Ballads represents______________?

A. a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.

B. a rejection of nature in favor of society.

C. a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.

D. a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.

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