James Phillip McAuley

The single best introduction to verse and meter. McAuley was Tasmanian Catholic poet and academic that was often mocked by the literary Modernist institution. He is a good poet whose work I’ll hopefully get to soon. But this short book is indispensable for the teaching of poetry. McAuley presents versification as a systematic whole that I believe only a Christian mind could bring to the subject, eliminating the many confusions that have been brought into the teaching of English meter. Although it’s a little hard to get through, once I understood, it was like someone turned on the lights… (meer)