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Quotes from Conventions and Revolt in Poetry — John Livingston Lowes

1867–1945 United States

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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.

Conventions and Revolt in Poetry (1919)

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