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Robin Hamilton robin.hamilton2 at BTINTERNET.COM
Tue May 4 15:25:40 UTC 2010


> GB has an 1885 ref. to Chaucer's "richly loaded diction": a good thing.
> Today that phrase would be nearly impossible.
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>
> JL

I think that 1885 phrase might be playing on something Keats said to Shelley
in a letter, if it were published by then.  Keats (I'm quoting from memory)
told Shelley that he ought to "load every rift with ore".

Robin

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