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An Introduction to Hydrographia

Hydrographia (etymologically from Greek ‘hydro’ [water], and ‘graphos’ [to write]) is a kind of EnargiaOpens in new window which consists in creating an illusionary sense of reality through a vividly descriptive scene of water.

A Classic Example

  1. “..Each laid on other a staying hand
    To listen ere we dared to look,
    And in the hush we joined to make
    We heard, we knew we heard the book.
    A note as from a single place,
    A slender tinkling fall that made
    Now drops that floated on the pool
    Like pearls, and now a silver blade.”

    — (Robert Frost, Going for Water.)

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