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semi-literacy, a fact which has contributed to the American
stress on a merely visual approach to reading in elementary
learning. Yet Gerard Manley Hopkins was crusading for tactile
stress in word use and for vigorous oral poetry exactly at the
time that Cézanne was giving tactile values to the retinal
impression. Referring to his poem “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves,”
Hopkins wrote:
Of this long sonnet above all remember what applies to all
my verse, that it is, as living art should be, made for
performance and that its performance is not reading with
the eye but loud, leisurely, poetical (not rhetorical)
recitation, with long rests, long dwells on the rhyme and
other marked syllables, and so on. This sonnet should be
sung: it is most carefully timed in tempo rubato . (20)