# Poetic diction: A study of eighteenth century verse Author: Quayle, Thomas, 1884- Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68420 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Poetic+diction%3A+A+study+of+eighteenth+century+verse+Quayle&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary From the time of the publication of the first Preface to the “Lyrical Ballads” (1798) the poetical language of the eighteenth century, or rather of the so-called “classical” writers of the period, has been more or less under a cloud of suspicion. The condemnation which Wordsworth then passed upon it, and even the more rational and penetrating criticism which Coleridge later brought to his own analysis of the whole question of the language fit and proper for poetry, undoubtedly led in the course of the nineteenth century to a definite but uncritical tendency to disparage and underrate the entire poetic output of the period, not only of the Popian supremacy, but even of the interregnum, whe... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/poetic-diction-a-study-of-eighteenth-century-verse-68420/chapters/1/index.md)