I'm with Richard, more or less. I used initial caps for seven years, then purged them. I don't miss them at all. They can create quite a fusty clutter, especially when there are formal names nearby. And they obtrude most notably on short-line verse. That's perhaps the principal reason why Tim Murphy has eschewed initial caps for three decades. The informality of uncapitalized lines also appealed to his youthful egalitarianism. Very likely Richard's contemporary students feel the same way. Tim and I are drawn to formal poetry by its music, not its appearance.
A.S.
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