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

John Livingston Lowes

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

John Livingston Lowes

John Livingston Lowes

Born: December 20, 1867

Died: August 15, 1945 (aged 77)

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

Known for:

Convention and revolt in poetry (1919)
Of Reading Books - Four Essays (1929)
Art of Geoffrey Chaucer (1930)

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