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digressiveness
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The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
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noun
The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
“Eighteenth-century writers, says Stabler, were never ‘lost’ in their digressiveness and used it as a method of supporting their concepts.”
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Eighteenth-century writers, says Stabler, were never ‘lost’ in their digressiveness and used it as a method of supporting their concepts.
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