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Monday, June 8, 2009
Coleridge on Metrists
Metrist
is an old word for a poet who writes in meter, as in iambic pentameter.
"There are not five metrists in the kingdom to whom I could have spoken so plainly."
Samuel Coleridge, Literary Remains (1819).
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