Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves lang… - Michael Schmidt

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Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it.

Michael Schmidt

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Michael Schmidt (born 2 March 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican-British poet, author and scholar. He is currently Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University.

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Poetry is a collaborative art, and yet—as it is being created—the most solitary and 'individual' of activities.

The reader does not need a technical vocabulary to read poetry, only a voice in the head or out loud which can deliver the sounds.

In poetry much of the sense and most of the pleasure resides in the sounds the poem make.

Prose uses the medium of language whilst poetry serves language and explores it. - Michael Schmidt

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