John Livingston Lowes Quotes

John Livingston Lowes was an American scholar and critic of English literature, specializing in Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Geoffrey Chaucer. Wikipedia

✵ 20. December 1867 – 15. August 1945

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John Livingston Lowes Quotes

“Free verse may be written as very beautiful prose; prose may be written as very beautiful free verse. Which is which?”

John Livingston Lowes

Nation (February 1916)

Beauty

“There is one way, and only one, of correctly reading a Latin hexameter. There may be three or four ways of reading an English blank verse line. I venture to say that no two mortals ever read aloud any given long passage of verse with precisely the same rhythms.”

John Livingston Lowes

Conventions and Revolt in Poetry (1919)

Way , Reading

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