LADIES’ MISTAKES—James Laver— Knopf ($2). Among the lost arts is that of writing verse in “heroic couplets.” Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely ...

Constantine Phipps' What You Want (Quercus) is a book chronicling one man's pursuit of happiness after separating from his wife. Written entirely in heroic couplets, there is nothing heroic about the ...

Here is work that manages to be entirely of-the-moment while at every turn it announces (without preening over it) not merely an awareness, but an actual confidence with such prosodic traditions as ...