Who said that there is, and ought to be, an essential difference between the language of prose and of metrical composition?
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Correct answer: C. S. T. Coleridge
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Coleridge, Biographia Literaria ch. 18, answering Wordsworth's Preface, which denied any 'essential difference'.
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