Word: bloated
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...poetry, tries less to hit a poetical bull's-eye than a poetical barn door. His misses are few. All the great and nearly all the minor ancients are fully, and in a few cases fulsomely, represented; contemporary poets receive mostly only token representation. People who tend to bloat when reading classic pieces can get relief, in The Viking Book, from its citation of one of the best literary carminatives ever written (taken from Boswell's Life of Johnson...