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To the Editors:
In "The Fortunes of Formalism" (April 2005), David Yezzi claims that Columbia recently cut the prosody course. He is a little off on that. Columbia just brought back the prosody course in response to student demand. I know. I took it last semester. One thing I noticed in that course was that the authors of many recent articles and books about formal verse spend a lot of time essentially pleading for the reader to give for-realism a chance. This seems totally unneccessary to me. A lot of my classmates at Columbia are very ...