her. Indeed, he became so attached to the sound of his 
typewriter that, on his deathbed, Henry James called for his 
Remington to be worked near his bedside.

     Just how much the typewriter has contributed by its 
unjustified right-hand margin to the development of vers libre  
would be hard to discover, but free verse was really a recovery 
of spoken, dramatic stress in poetry, and the typewriter 
encouraged exactly this quality. Seated at the typewriter, the 
poet, much in the manner of the jazz musician, has the 
experience of performance as composition. In the nonliterate 
world, this had been the situation of the bard or minstrel. He 
had themes, but no text. At the typewriter, the poet 
commands the resources of the printing press. The machine is 
like a public-address system immediately at hand. He can shout 
or whisper or whistle, and make funny typographic faces at the