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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