John Livingston Lowes (1867–1945) American academic
Conventions and Revolt in Poetry (1919)
John Livingston Lowes (1867–1945) American academic
Conventions and Revolt in Poetry (1919)
“Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) American musician, poet
Preface to The Science of English Verse 1880
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) Austrian artist
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Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture (1958)
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) British boxer and poet
Drums of Morning, 1992
“In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.”
Marshall McLuhan book The Gutenberg Galaxy
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 94
“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch