I pick a fight (not with Jonathan) That's a refreshing change.

"It's a shame that almost no one to address the subject since Saintsbury has even a single non-icky feeling for any other aspect of poetry."

Yes, but why should that be the case? If you ignore prosody you are ignoring a major chunk of what poetry is about. Yet if you make it the focus of attention for too long, you often get a small and cranky vision of poetry (like mine recently).

Poetry is not about beating up William Logan. I'm sure he has his own demons to wrestle with.