Friday, May 17, 2024

In praise of formal poetry …

… The Nature of Things Fragile: A Review - Ad Fontes. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Almost all of the poems in The Nature of Things Fragile are metrical, and most of them also use rhyme. His diction usually lacks the ornamentation of Auden and Hecht; his style seems closer to the plain language of Robert Frost. His book demonstrates mastery of most of the major received forms, but his most inventive work may be in his epigrams.

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