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Erasmus or Machiavelli builds up a sense of their
“inscrutability.” Arnold’s sonnet to Shakespeare is a useful
point of reference for anybody who needs to observe the
literary man baffled by the non-literary.
It was some time after printing began that authors or
readers discovered “points of view.” Earlier, it was shown how
Milton was the first to introduce visual perspective into poetry,
and his work had to wait till the eighteenth century for
acceptance. For the world of visual perspective is one of unified
and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the
resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last
art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the
first to rebound in the electric age.