...and continuous." " I do not doubt," says Wordsworth in this famous preface (third edition, 1802), " that it may be safely affirmed that there neither...between the language of prose and metrical composition. ... If it be affirmed that rhyme and metrical arrangement of themselves constitute a distinction which...

...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,...

...must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose." "It may be safely affirmed, that there neither is,...between the language of prose and metrical composition," Translated into practice, these theories resulted in such compositions as the ballad of "The Idiot...

...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...

...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...

...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 difference...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...

...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...

...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...

...one of the basic principles around which the modern conception of literature has been constructed: "It may be safely affirmed that there neither is,...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...

...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...