Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY, Letter K

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KENNING
A compound word or phrase similar to an epithet, but which involves a multi-noun replacement for a single noun, such as wave traveler for boat or whale-path for ocean, used especially in Old English, Old Norse and early Teutonic poetry. A type of periphrasis, some kennings are instances of metaphor, metonymy, or synecdoche
Sidelight: Beowulf, the oldest known epic poem in English, contains numerous examples of kennings. Milton used the kenning, day-star, for sun, in Lycidas.
(See also Ricochet Words, Tmesis)

KING'S ENGLISH
The standard, pure or correct English speech or usage, also called "Queen's English."
Sidelight: The origin of the term is uncertain, but it appeared in Wilson's Arte of Rhetoricke, in 1553 and in Act 1, Scene 4 of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, in about 1597:

    Mistress Quickly:
        What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,
        and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor
        Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any
        body in the house, here will be an old abusing of
        God's patience and the king's English.
(Contrast Solecism)

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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors
of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

---Percy Bysshe Shelley

How does a poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?

---Thomas Carlyle