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versecraft en · NOUN

Etymology

From verse + craft.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The art of writing poetry.
    • The erotics of composition are essential to the process, some prereflective excitation and orientation, some sense that your own little verse-craft can dock safe and sound at the big quay of language. 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvi: