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that his voice may be heard; or a patron desiring to assist
him may lend his drawing-room for the purpose, and use
his influence to get his friends to attend. It was not a
healthy phase for literature, since it encouraged
compositions which lent themselves to rhetorical
declamation; and one may doubt whether it did any
service to the circulation of books.
Moses Hadas in his Ancilla to Classical Learning goes into
the question of oral publication more thoroughly than Kenyon
(p. 50):
The concept of literature as something to be listened to
in public rather than scanned silently in private in itself
makes the notion of literary property more difficult to
grasp. We ourselves are more conscious of an author’s