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Originally Posted by Matt Q
You started your first post with a quote from another member decrying contemporary critics as "fools" and "sophists". This might be what John's responding to.
Matt
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I'll have a fuller response to Jonathan's comment later, but I just want to say quickly that this is a misreading of my tone when I said that scansion is fake and that anyone who cares about it is a crank. After all, I care about it! I wrote a whole post about it! I use it in the vast majority of my poetry! I use it in my critiques on this board! I just think it's best to do so with a hearty irreverence for it; doing so helps keep it in its proper place.