The political acrobatics of acrostic poems
A highly sophisticated 9th-century figure poem incorporating acrostic elements in British Library, Add MS 24193
Reading is a visual act because writing is a practice meant to be seen. Words appeal to the eyes, even though their final destination is the mind, where they are processed into meaning. I like to think that once humans invented script, they ju…
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