You'll get no argument from me when it comes to Robinson. I like that sonnet, but
Richard Cory is a better poem, I think.
It looks like this thread might be ready for that bullet, too. My OP was to show that WCW made a good choice in switching from metrical and rhyming poetry to writing in free verse. It looks to me that we're all in agreement about that.
I couldn't find any of his formal poems that I'd put alongside the ones that made it into the anthologies, except maybe
Portrait of a Lady, which Hayden Carruth selected for his seminal,
The Voice That is Great Within Us, in 1969. If y'all don't have that book, buy it.
Thanks all, for your thoughts.
Unless anybody's got anything else...
This William has...left...the building...
PS: Dammit, Sam, you got the 42nd post!