On the authority of root meanings and the external.(Critical Essay)

From: Chicago Review | Date: June 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

(a poetry workshop at The Naropa Institute, Boulder, 6/13/1977) 

Throughout his discourse Ed Dorn seeks to clarify terms. He always 
considered it worth refining broad terms like "political culture," 
"education," "rhetoric," or "theoretical." He would take issue with 
daily malapropisms, like saying, "I'm outa here" when you hadn't even 
left yet. He was generally au courrant with new usages, but often, 
through his studies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English 
literature, he would know some history of the term. An aficionado of the 
art of dictionary making, and a great ...

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