Dave
I share Deborah's difficulties with narrative verse. When I was a child I delighted in Scottish Border ballads but now I do look for compression in poetry. I can still greatly enjoy a narrative poem that sustains my attention but find my mind drifting if they go on and on with uplifted finger like the Aged Man a Sitting on the Gate.
I too love Hecht's compressed narrative poems.
I am always open to conversion.
best
Janet
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