| Description | He thanks Herschel for the English hexameters, noting that Herschel has kept almost wholly to 'the Dactylic cadence'. He asks if Herschel thinks that English requires a larger infusion of the spondaic. In return, he send something appearing in the May number of 'Good Words'. He thinks that Herschel will consider him preaching the faith which he once destroyed, and he has introduced the spondaic ending, noting the lines concerned. |