@artkavanagh This is so true! When I was first starting to write poetry, I read John Donne very carefully. Or, more precisely, I read the poems by John Donne that I found in anthologies very carefully. When I bought myself a copy of Donne's collected—which I no longer own, so I don't remember which version it was—I found it very difficult to read because of the apparatus. The same was true when I tried to read Alexander Pope (again, this was a long time ago, so I don't remember which edition) after first reading Hayden Carruth's essays on Pope's prosody. The apparatus was seriously distracting and turned the experience more into an intellectual exercise, if only because of the effort to ignore the apparatus, than the appreciation I had hoped it would be.