In more traditional aesthetic terms one could say that logopoeia is writing which activates the higher faculties of cognition rather than relying on sense experience. Whereas most poetry avails somehow of the plastic arts to enhance or charge language with meaning, logopoeia dances intellectually through verbal connotations, clichés, citations, and resonances.

I am not, in this instance, referring to the belligerati - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and chums - ever-present in the liberal press on both sides of the Atlantic.

A woman that wandring in our coaſtes hath bought / A plot for price: where ſhe a citie ſet: / To whom we gaue the ſtrond for to manure.

Some of the misopogons are quite consistent in this, and object to beards altogether on the grounds of their being unclean, ungentlemanly, un-English.