In later life he developed a theory about what the English language would have looked like had the Norman Conquest never happened, and set up the common speech and life of the people he lived among as a bulwark against the encroaching tide of cold-hearted commerce and science that would soon destroy the rural England he knew.
Michael Almereyda, in his updating of "Hamlet," from 2000, compresses the text while thinking in highly inflected images that seem to frame the language as much as the action and guiding his actors to an ear-catchingly provocative fusion of common speech and poetic grandeur.
The critic Helen Vendler infamously compared Levine to Rod McKuen, but she missed his sense of the rhythms of common speech, of the everyday drama of syntax, that allowed readers into his personal vision.
These sorts of examples reflect the cultural common sense and conditions of common speech of his age.
According to some scholars, Philo used the terminology of the pagan religions and mystery cults, including the term enthousiasmos ("having God within one"), merely because it was part of the common speech of the day; but there is nothing inherently contradictory in Judaism in the combination of mysticism and legalism in the same thinker.
In the age after Alexander the Great, Attic Ionic, the literary language, became the basis of Koine, or "common speech," the language of practically all later Greek writing, including the New Testament, down to the present day.
"THE music of poetry must be a music latent in the common speech of its time".
In the Western tradition, it is only in comparatively modern times that literature has been written in the common speech of cultivated men.
But Pinter's achievement was to discover in the repetitive rhythms, the bus-stop banalities and even the rancid articulateness of common speech a new form of theatrical discourse.
By the 19th century Polish was well established both as a literary vehicle and as the dominant language of common speech in Poland, despite attempts of the partitioning powers to Germanize or Russify the population.
