quick-receptive

Updated: May 20, 2025

"Touch him ne'er so lightly, into song he broke: Soil so quick-receptive, not one feather-seed, Not one flower-dust fell but straight its fall awoke Vitalising virtue: song would song succeed Sudden as spontaneous prove a poet-soul!" Indeed?

William Lyon Phelps - The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century