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visual component in every sector of the ancient world. The
steady increase of stress on retinal impression from the Greek
into the Roman time has been noted by John Hollander in The
Untuning of the Sky (p. 7):
But with the exception of oral, pre-literary poetry,
added complications to the consideration of poetry as
sound arise in the existence and use of written languages.
If a poem is to be treated as a highly complex utterance
in a spoken language, its written form becomes a simple
coding of it, word by word, onto a page. The poem will
thus be defined in terms of patterns of sound classes.
But starting as early as the first Latin use of Greek
metres, literary analysis has been confronted with poems
whose written versions, or codings, contain significant
individual and conventional elements which do not appear