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Monday, January 4, 2010

Chaucer's Creative Destruction

Treasure the thought
That lines he wrought
Plowed as well as planted.
Posted by murchadha at 3:43 PM
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murchadha said...

“Another threat to good English,” Lynch writes, “came from the poets, who, in order to get their lines to scan, had squeezed and mangled good English words until they were barely recognizable.”

January 5, 2010 at 4:10 PM

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