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)

“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)

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