@MaryannCorbett Maryann, keep doing the humane thing, no matter what response it evokes. Tim Murphy was a complex person, with positive and negative sides to his personality and his writing. You tried to present him as he was, in all of his aspects, letting readers draw their own conclusions.
@MelissaBalmain @MaryannCorbett @RattlePoetry I think I'd call it a stretch villanelle, just as I'd call a villanelle that was short a stanza a curtal villanelle.
@MaryannCorbett I tend to agree with Boris. Spenser is often considered a poet's poet because of his encyclopedic knowledge of poetic history and use of poetic devices.