He also had a remarkable ear for languages.
Threading through it all is a narrative that finds its own nonlinear way through the realms of memory, and Fuller's remarkable ear and mimicking voice.
But Guthrie, who would have been 100 years old on July 14, was also a brilliant and distinctive prose stylist, whose writing is distinguished by a homespun authenticity, deep-seated purpose and remarkable ear for dialect.
"It is a particularly cruel irony that someone like Anne should be afflicted with hearing loss," says Dunmore, "because her distinct quality as a poet is her remarkable ear".
Shakespeare, adds Noble, "has this remarkable ear for the cadence of ordinary speech, for example in a character like the shepherd Corin in As You Like It, and you can always hear his mind working in the lines".
Trevor's remarkable ear not just for the mannerisms of speech but for the underlying fear and vulnerability of which they are the signs made it a visible and audible tour-de-force.
In addition, Skinner is blessed with a remarkable ear for everyday speech and an ability to capture universal experiences so acutely that you virtually end up nodding in recognition as you listen.
The writer Damon Runyon had a remarkable ear for street-speech and Loesser's lyrics brilliantly reproduce that vernacular tang – the words "I", "Me" or "My" stud the songs – while establishing that, among paradigms of rhymes, he was the bridge between Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim.
It is Bloom's remarkable ear, attuned to the puns and rhythm of ancient Hebrew, that convinced him that the J writer, the most literary of the writers of the Bible, was a woman, a theory he posited in his best-seller, The Book of J.
