Fred said:
>This is getting about as silly as its inversion, the obsession of
>the 18th century with the heroic couplet, and it will kill Free Verse
>dead before we are finished.
What can you mean - that the "["]obsession["] of the 18th century with
the heroic couplet" was "silly"? Or, since you say 'inversion' - implying
a synchronic comparison - IS "silly"? Silly old Pope and Cowper, Swift
and Gray
If "Free Verse" isn't killed off sooner or later, and specifically
-before- we've finished, it'll wreak general indifference like a
gnat-plague.
Besides, Fred, Prynne's comprehension of meter is arguably the most
complex in the English language to date. What of John Wilkinson?
Doesn't it seem like the same simulated tolling of the same endlessly
repeatable bell for who knows whom? Don't ask..
Have you read _Her Weasels wild Returning_?
k
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