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Marlowe anticipated Whitman’s barbaric yawp by setting up a
national PA System of blank verse—a rising iambic
system of sound to suit the new success story.
Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed
systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of
modern nationalism.
The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the
printed page.
The oral polyphony of the prose of Nashe offends against lineal
and literary decorum.
The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of
Immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.