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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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