elucubrare:An experiment; an erasure, if you must. Hopkins, I think, is the one of our poets who use
elucubrare:An experiment; an erasure, if you must. Hopkins, I think, is the one of our poets who uses language most like Sappho, as a thing to be worked and moulded, but not as bronze is worked, as clay is, fluidly and with the hands; his “couple-colour” is a coinage the Greeks would have approved of. This is to show how our understanding of the poem would change based on the deterioration of its preservation. -- source link
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