Marlowe anticipated Whitman’s barbaric yawp by setting up a 
national PA System of blank verse—a rising iambic 
system of sound to suit the new success story.

Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed 
systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of 
modern nationalism.

The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the 
printed page.

The oral polyphony of the prose of Nashe offends against lineal 
and literary decorum.

The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of 
Immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.