 | William Murison - English language - 1910 - 416 pages
...extreme and say that prose and verse require one and the same language. "There neither is," he declared, "nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition." When Wordsworth put this theory into practice, he wrote prosaic lines, as "The other, not displeased,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 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. 47 1802 : of Poetry and Matter of fact, or Science. 48 1802: is Metre; nor is this, in truth, a strict... | |
 | William Garden Blaikie Murdoch - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 112 pages
..."is the very body and soul of poetry " ; while, keenly trumpeting Wordsworth's favourite text — " there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition " — he acted thereon even to extravagance. And in this he was eagerly followed by the other ardent... | |
 | Charles Harold Herford - 1911 - 360 pages
...Nor was he quite true to his genius in the second more unqualified contention of his famous Preface, that ' there neither is nor can be any essential difference between the language of Prose and Verse.' This expresses his purely literary reaction from the ' artificial diction ' of Pope's school,... | |
 | Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - History - 1980 - 176 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. ...What is a Poet? To whom does he address himself? And what language is to be expected from him. He... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 344 pages
...interested in. He is undoubtedly thinking of Wordsworth's great 'Preface' to Lyrical Ballads, with its assertion that 'there neither is nor can be any essential...between the language of prose and metrical composition'. In this essay Pater follows the example of the romantic essayists, such as William Hazlitt and Thomas... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...examination having been, indeed, my chief inducement for the preceding inquisition. "There neither is or can be any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition."2 Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself, at least, in all argumentative... | |
 | Stephen Prickett - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 324 pages
...Wordsworth patently took much of his famous formulation directly from Lowth and Blair. Though his insistence that 'there neither is nor can be any essential difference' between 'the language of prose and metrical composition'28 was strikingly original in context, it stands in a tradition which, if it reaches back... | |
 | David Bromwich - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 310 pages
...Wordsworth in this essay was the first to say, with an emphasis that could not be dropped ever after, that "there neither is, nor can be, any essential...between the language of prose and metrical composition." In the ballads themselves, he reduced the argument to a practice, with a minute attentiveness to humble... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 384 pages
...principles around which the modern conception of literature has been constructed: "It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition." He then goes on to fix literature firmly in the overall social scheme of knowledge by differentiating... | |
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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. 
