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I think a better case can be made for Wulfstan.
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Indeed. A sort of Martin Luther King with hwæts. It was how clearly *prose*
Ælfric is despite the metricality that made him the butt of my silliness.
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But there's a serious tripwire here across the MS/print divide.
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At least two tripwires: oral v MS v print. One might tack *secondary
orality* onto the end of that. So Dr King has some relevance after all. As
does Dickenson
How slowly change is induced by technology might be another problem. One
cannot seriously lay the growth of visual ordering entirely at the door of
the printing press, for example.
CW
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