Welcome, Dave. This thread interests me because I'm a hard sell on most narrative verse. On the other hand, it works for me when it exhibits your 'narrative economy'. But it's not easy to achieve the compression we (I) want from poetry when you're telling a tale of any complexity; and the poet has to find a way to keep a restless reader like me reading with verbal delights all along the way. Hecht does it for me, but Frost CAN founder badly; even Homer nods.
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