[New-Poetry] a dead ear for scansion

[Robin Hamilton]

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Sam Gwynn and Robin Hamilton surely have an opinion on what books are best 
for the study of metrical poetry.
They must be on vacation.

Finnegan
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My own favourite is Joseph Maloff, _A Manual of English Meters_.

        Robin Hamilton

(Who's not so much on vacation as trying to get his head around the 
distinction between nips and foists.  And whether pockets existed before 
pickpockets did.)