“In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily reading aloud.”
Source: The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 94
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Marshall McLuhan416
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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.
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"Tarquin of Cheapside"
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Neil Gaiman (1960) English fantasy writer
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'A Conversation with John Hollander' (by email) by Paul Devlin vol 1 St. John's University Humanities Review April 2003
