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In one of his verses, Hill really does use the words offertorium, atrorubent and claustral.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Roger Lewis 2012
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Without Title teems with words like “atrorubent,” “barathea,” “Pasiphaean,” “haruspex,”” pleach-toned” and “shotten.”
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Without Title teems with words like “atrorubent,” “barathea,” “Pasiphaean,” “haruspex,”” pleach-toned” and “shotten.”
Are You Smart Enough to Understand Geoffrey Hill? « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007
mollusque commented on the word atrorubent
For rain-sprigged yew trees, blockish as they guard
admonitory sparse berries, atrorubent
stone holt of darkness, no, of claustral light . . .
--Geoffrey Hill, 2007, "Offertorium: December 2002", Without Title, p. 22
August 2, 2009