 | William Wordsworth - English literature - 1876 - 364 pages
...can in no respect differ from that of good Prose. r We will go further. It may be safely affirmed, that there neither / is, nor can be, any essential...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | English literature - 1876 - 604 pages
...poetry there was any line of demarcation at all? In the Preface from which we have quoted we read : ' There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and accordingly we call them sisters... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1880 - 678 pages
...respect differ from that of good prose. I will go further. l do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between poetry and painting,- and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1880 - 164 pages
...demarcation at all ? In the Preface [to the " Lyrical Ballads"] from which we have quoted we read : '"There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between Poetry and Painting, and accordingly we call them sisters... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Sonnets, English - 1882 - 378 pages
...elaboration of poetic diction, but whose works nevertheless were extreme examples affording proof enough that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. Of quite another kind (and perhaps deserving of the critical outcry against Wordsworth's note) is Coleridge's... | |
 | Robert Williams Buchanan - English poetry - 1883 - 372 pages
...the truth, in the masterly preface to his " Lyrical Ballads." " It maybe safely affirmed," he says, "that there neither is, nor can be, any essential...between the language of prose and metrical composition. . . . Much confusion has been introduced into criticism by this contradistinction of Poetry and Prose,... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...a general principle in the following passage : — " I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. We are fond of tracing the resemblance between poetry and painting, and Accordingly we call them sisters;... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...so nauseous, Wordsworth adopted a theory, fully expounded in various of his prefaces to his poems, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. " I have proposed to myself," he said, " to imitate and, as far as is possible, to adopt the very language... | |
 | Sir William Symington M'Cormick - English literature - 1889 - 196 pages
...against them. I do not mean to enter now on a consideration of Wordsworth's much discussed dictum " that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." ' If by ' language' 1 Preface to the Second Edition of " Lyrical Ballads" (1800). The word " essential... | |
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It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition. 
