 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 348 pages
...examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There$w$R§r is@ can jo be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition." Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative and consecutive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1907 - 348 pages
...having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. " There neither i$pr can 30 be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition." Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative and consecutive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1908 - 296 pages
...important ; its examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. ' There neither is nor can be any essential difference...the language of prose and metrical composition.'' Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative and consecutive... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1908 - 316 pages
...important ; its examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. ' There neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.'1 Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least in all argumentative... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 pages
...respect differ from that of good Prose. I will go further. 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... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 372 pages
...poetry, and nothing but the rhythm. When Wordsworth declares, in the Preface to the 'Lyrical Ballads,' that 'there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition,' he is perfectly right, and Coleridge is certainly wrong in saying, ' I write in metre because I am... | |
 | Arthur Symons - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 362 pages
...not ' tha real language of men in any situation,' is to be given up, and, 'it may safely be affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition.' The language which alone is suitable for verse, and which requires no change in its transference from... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1909 - 404 pages
...reason already alleged, to bring my language near to the language of men." " It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be. any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition. . . . The language of such poetry as is here recommended is, as far as is possible, a selection of... | |
 | Thomas George Tucker, Sir Walter Murdoch - English literature - 1909 - 262 pages
...place among the master-spirits. Wordsworth's belief, as set forth in The Preface already mentioned, was that " there neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of Prose and Verse." The poet ought to use " a selection of the language really used by men," and especially of... | |
 | James Spedding - Literature - 1910 - 620 pages
...poem can in no respect differ from that of good Prose. We will go further. 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... | |
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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. 
