If history's most absorbent author needed high legal drama, he had only to versify the royal squabbles in Holinshed's Chronicles.
He'd versify in four-foot iambs: O Lady of the lucent hair, Why do you play at solitaire?.
Van Duyn, a 1991 Pulitzer prizewinner, has often written about human relationships, drawing on her 48 years of wedlock to versify about "the complexities, bumps and humor of .