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“Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.”
Louis Untermeyer
“Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.”
Michael Drayton
