Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing rustic life and language as well as social outcasts and delinquents not only in pastoral poetry, common before this poets time, but also as the major subject and medium for poetry in general ?

A. Alfred Lord Tennyson

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D. Samuel Johnson

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