I think it has more to do with styles of public speech in the pre-PA systems
nineteenth century, and acting, the age of Beerbohm Tree's etc.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "KENT JOHNSON" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: 19th century poets reading
And the old recordings of Tennyson and Browning have them
sounding something like sheep, too. I wonder if this was how
English poets typically read in the 19th century? Whitman, on the
other hand --on the contested wax cylinder recording recently
discovered-- pronounces each word as if there were a period after
every morpheme. It can't be him... But the nude photo by Eakins
certainly is.
Kent
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