 ... that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated character, must necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting...  The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 367by William Wordsworth - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1905 - 476 pages
...be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might bo demonstrated by innumerable passages from almost all the poetical writings even of Milton himself." He then quotes Gray's sonnet : " In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the very best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose. For, however lively and truthful the poet's language may be, there cannot be a doubt, says Wordsworth,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1908 - 316 pages
...metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly...all the poetical writings even of Milton himself.' He then quotes Gray's sonnet — In vain to me the smiling mornings shine, And reddening Phoebus lifts... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 638 pages
...metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly...all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself. To illustrate the subject in a general manner, 1 will here adduce a short composition of Gray, who... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - Literature - 1910 - 638 pages
...likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly U'. AXMX the language of prose when prose is well written....all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself. To illustrate the subject in a general manner, I will here adduce a short composition of Gray, who... | |
 | John Lawrence Lambe - English drama - 1911 - 404 pages
...metre, in no respects differ from that of good prose, but, likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly...all the poetical writings even of Milton himself." If this be true, and it undoubtedly is, of epic poetry, how infinitely further does it reach in the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1911 - 296 pages
...metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose*3 when prose is 38 1802 : consequently, I hope that there is 39 1802 : namely, good 40 1802:... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly...all the poetical writings, even of Milton himself. [T]o illustrate the subject in a general manner, I will here adduce a short composition of Gray, who... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting look The war-denouncing trumpet took, And blew a...tho' sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected will go further. I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be,... | |
 | English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...metre, in no respect differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting will go further. I do not doubt that it may be safely affirmed, that there neither is, nor can be,... | |
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