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Gerard Manley Hopkins - The poetical language of an...
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one. (Gerard Manley Hopkins)

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened, to any degree heightened and unlike itself, but not...an obsolete one.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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