You struck me speechless for a bit, Caleb, with those generous comments. But I think you may be confusing sonority with artistry.
I was careless with my comment on metrical lope. I should have remembered your partiality to Hopkins. You like to pack in the stresses.
Though no practitioner of the plain style, I appreciate Cope's mastery of it. And I don't think it would be nearly as easy as she makes it look. Therein lies her art.
Alan Sullivan
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