Michael Faraday (1791–1867) English scientist
Lecture notes of 1858, quoted in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) by Bence Jones, Vol. 2, p. 403
“The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to
The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Change
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