Note 92 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
Reading edition
Advancement of Learning, ed. Wright, II. iii. 4 (pp. 101 ff.). Clearer in the Latin version, his antithesis, “nam et vera narratio carmine, et ficta oratione soluta conscribi potest,” is not identical with the proposition that poetry is independent of rhythm. He says it “is in measure of words for the most part restrained.”