Stop rhyming I mean it -- Anybody want a peanut?

This isn't really about rhyming per se, but it is about the popularity of the heroic couplet in the Eighteenth-Century. Here's a list of pro-heroic coupleters:

• Dryden (in poetry and drama, baby!)
  
• Denham's Cooper's Hill
• Pope
• Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes
• Goldsmith's The Deserted Village
• Chaucer (he's not 18C, but he's the enabler)

Now, people who don't like the heroic couplet in epic poetry:

• Matthew Prior

He claims he doesn't like it, yet it seems like he uses it... I'm probably wrong about this, but...

• rhyming couplet
• epic poetry
• iambic pentameter (the jury is still out on the iambic)
  

Hmmm...

PS- Okay, so I suppose that Prior's lines are enjambed instead of closed... but seriously, he's THIS close to being a heroic coupleter, it hurts!