...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...

...take to produce it." And he erected this practice into a general principle in the following passage: " I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed that...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;...

...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...

...produce it." And he erected this practice into a general principle in the following passage : — " I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed that...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;...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...of it by Wordsworth in the Preface to his "Lyrical Ballads" (1800), in illustration of his assertion that "there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition " ; and on account of Coleridge's criticism of Wordsworth's theory, and of the Sonnet itself, in his...

...of it by Wordsworth in the Preface to his Lyrical Ballads (1800), in illustration of his assertion that "there neither is nor can be any essential difference...between the language of prose and metrical composition " ; and on account of Coleridge's criticism of Wordsworth's theory, and of the Sonnet itself, in his...

...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." Such is Mr. Wordsworth's assertion. Now prose itself. at least in all argumentative and consecutive...