Word: vergilian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry Melville.) Like Hardy, he turned to poetry seriously after he had produced a sizeable amount of fiction, and alternated between the two for the rest of his life. His poetry bears the stamp of the novelist-his vocabulary is heavy, almost unreadable, slowed down by a nearly Vergilian concentration of m's, n's, and other weighty sounds...
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