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Originally posted by Janet Kenny:
Oliver,
I do agree in principle but good prose has cadence and phrasing don't you think?
Janet
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Yes, Janet, as I said above, "I think we can agree, if it was ever in doubt, that prose can be as noble, musical, rhythmic and moving as verse, with verse, perhaps, having the edge because of the writer’s ability to control the line length or endings."
I should add that prose has "the edge" in many other ways.
Imagine carrying on this discussion in verse!
Tim,
I agree with Mr Wilbur that "unlineated free verse" is a frightening "notion" rather like the notion of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object would be,
or of the Pope not being a Catholic, but it is not an actual possibility. If it is unlineated, it is not verse and "there's an end on't," as Dr Johnston would surely have said.