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" And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, 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,... "
Calcutta Review - Page xxi
1847
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 272 pages
...these volumes. And it would be a most easy task to prove to him that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...these volumes. And it would be a most easy task to prove to him that not only the language- of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in no respeŁt differ from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the...
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Lyrical Ballads: With Pastoral and Other Poems

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...these volumes. And it. would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by...
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Lyrical ballads, with other poems [including some by S.T. Coleridge]. From ...

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 356 pages
...these Volumes. And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good Poe.m, even of the most elevated...reference to the Metre, .in no respect differ from that ef good Prose, but likewise, that some of the most interesting parts of the best Poems will be found...
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Lyrical Ballads, with Pastoral and Other Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...these volumes. And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...except with reference to the metre, in no respect diflfer from that of good prose, but likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 57

1833 - 598 pages
...the language of a • large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated • character, mast necessarily, except with reference to the metre, '...the best poems will be ' found to be strictly the language of prose when prose is well ' written.' Since the particular case of translation is thus mixed...
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Lyrical Ballads,: With Pastoral and Other Poems. In Two Volumes, Volume 1

William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ballads - 1805 - 284 pages
...these volumes. And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...these volumes. And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...of the best poems will be found to be strictly the language of prose, when prose is well written. The truth of this assertion might be demonstrated by...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...these volumes. And it would be a most easy task to prove to him, that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...in no respect differ from that of good prose, but 372 likewise that some of the most interesting parts of the best poems will be found to be strictly...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volume 2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1817 - 326 pages
...Wordsworth, in consequence, assigns as the proof of his position, " that not only the language of a large portion of every good poem, even of the most elevated...necessarily, except with reference to the metre, in 63 no respect differ from that of good prose; but likewise that some of the most interesting parts...
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