Who used the phrase 'gaudiness and inane phraseology' of neoclassical poetic diction?
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Correct answer: A. William Wordsworth
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Wordsworth's Advertisement and Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798/1800) attack 'the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers'.
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