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typography are the outering or uttering of private inner
experience and the massing of collective national awareness, as
the vernacular is rendered visible, central, and unified by the
new technology.
It is quite consistent that Chaucer, as much as Dryden,
should have preferred the couplet as an intimate mode of
conversation among friends. In this way the Chaucerian couplet
would have struck St. Thomas More as quite close in character
to the scholastic dialogue, much as the couplet of Pope and
Dryden preserved the character of the Senecan amble. The
important text of More cited earlier makes the proper
distinction between rhyme and blank verse when he contrasts
scholastic philosophy as “not unpleasant among friends in
familiar communication,” and the new modes of discourse for
the “councils of Kings, where great matters be debated and