Craft: What is craft?

O.E.D., Rodin, Bashō, Plath, Niedecker

The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that the word “craft” appeared in print in English as early as the year 893, so the word is at least 1,100 years old. It originally meant strong or powerful and was related to the verb to crave, and its etymology had the sense of compel or force. The terms art and craft were synonymous for most of this history, as …