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The breadth, originality, and flexibility of Sidney's diction is scarcely surpassed even by Shakespeare. Often, like Chaucer, he uses words which seem easy and accessible to us, so that we may not really appreciate the fact that he is using then for the first time . . . His linguistic legacy to English language and culture is not now often acknowledged or noticed, yet is considerable . . .
— Mar 25, 2018 01:15PM
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