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A subject about which he wrote his
B.Litt thesis
at Oxford and which led (in 1928) to his third published book, Barfield
did not depart in his basic use of the term from its consensus meaning,
defining it as "When words are selected and arranged in such a way that
their meaning either arouses, or is obviously intended to arouse, aesthetic
imagination" (PD XXX). Barfield's deeper understanding of poetic
diction, however, involved such factors as felt
change of consciousness and
strangeness.
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Poetic
Diction, passim, "Poetic Diction and Legal Fiction" (RM
44-64). |
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