Note 93 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY
Reading edition
De Poematum Cantu et Viribus Rythmi, Oxon., 1673. The reference to origins is interesting: “illud quidem certum omnem poësin olim cantatum fuisse.... Unde sequitur, quicquid non canitur aut cantari nequeat, non esse poema.”