 | John Davidson - 1905 - 212 pages
...he ever found the terms characteristic of his own innovation. He said : " It may be safely affirmed that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." Boldly, but not safely ; and the substitution of " metrical composition " for "poetry" is distinctly... | |
 | Plato - Cambridge Platonists - 1905 - 556 pages
...poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose. We will go farther. It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of Prose and metrical composition. ... I here use the word ' Poetry ' (though against my own judgment) as opposed to the word Prose, and... | |
 | Georg Brandes - Lake poets - 1905 - 392 pages
...in prose or in verse. And this leads him to the enunciation of his famous and interesting paradox : that there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. If this only meant disapprobation of all the tiresome and foolish distortions of language, to which... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 766 pages
...of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions." 3. There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." 397. Elements of Truth. — The most, perhaps, that can be said in favor of these principles is that,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Criticism - 1905 - 294 pages
...own directness and from the unsophisticated character of such men (Pref. pp. 45, 48-49) ; the other, that 'there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and [that of] metrical composition.' Let us again remind ourselves that Wordsworth's theories take their... | |
 | Frederic William Henry Myers - Poets, English - 1906 - 662 pages
...into 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 foud of tracing the resemblance between poetry and painting, and, accordingly, we call them... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 584 pages
...doubt," says Wordsworth in this famous preface (third edition, 1802), " that it may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. ... If it be affirmed that rhyme and metrical arrangement of themselves constitute a distinction which... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 772 pages
...of social vanity, they convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions." 3. There neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." 397. Elements of Truth. — The most, perhaps, that can be said in favor of these principles is that,... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 pages
...found in lofty and energetic prose, written or spoken. 'It may be safely affirmed,' says Wordsworth, ' that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition.' But in what sense does 1 Literature of the Georgian Era, pp. 159, 161. Wordsworth use the word language... | |
 | William Morton Payne - English poetry - 1907 - 404 pages
...reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose." "It may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition," Translated into practice, these theories resulted in such compositions as the ballad of "The Idiot... | |
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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. 
