Though some Romantic poets-Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron-wrote excellent prose in their critical writings, letters and journals, and some of the novelists like Scott and Jane Austen were masters of prose-style, those who wrote prose for its own sake in the form of the essays and attained excellence in the art of prose-writing were Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey. ... Mostly he wrote in the form of articles for journals and he dealt with all sorts of subjects-about himself and his friends, life in general, art, literature, philosophy and religion. ...

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