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This similitude is the foundation of almost all the ornaments of poetic diction.
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Nonetheless, I remain in agreement with an observation of Brendan Kennelly's on poetic diction.
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Or let me take a line certainly very free from " poetic diction:"
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Words clothe thought; poetic diction had the artifice of the crinoline; it would stand by itself.
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Quite as important is the alteration that he made in the character of English poetic diction.
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Sometimes, it is true, this adventurer in poetic diction had rather better fortune in his alterations.
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Their author already has at his command a gorgeous poetic diction that is all his own.
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We feel that we are drawing near to the " poetic diction" of the eighteenth century.
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The poetic diction of the eighteenth century, against which Wordsworth made his famous protest, is entirely absent.
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Delicately written in a rich poetic diction.
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What is said of poetic diction?
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This poetic diction, refined from the grossness of domestic use, was the standard poetic speech of the eighteenth century.
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Nor had the lips of any English girl ever dealt there with a poetic diction so unchastened and unashamed.
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No pains are spared, no profusion of ornament, no splendour of poetic diction to set off the meanest things.
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Both were capable of immensely formal but oddly plain poetic diction; they often created elaborate formal structures in their poems.
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Though he had imitators (the poetic diction of the age following is modelled on him) he had no followers.
