[Turtle91]

I think the main aversion to <br/> is using them to create space between/before/after paragraphs.

Bad:

<p>Last paragraph in a section with a space following.<br/><br/></p>

<p><br/><br/>First paragraph in a section with space preceeding.</p>

<p><br/></p>  'empty line

That shouldn't imply that it is overall bad coding. The header example above is a perfect situation where it's better to use <br/> than multiple <h#>. I would actually format the header issue slightly differently - just so I could apply slightly different formatting to the author line:

CSS:
h1 {margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; text-align: center;}
h1 span {display:block; font-size:.8em}

Text:
<h1>LOVE AMOUNG<br/>the<br/>CHICKENS<span>by P. G. Wodehouse</span></h1>

or

CSS:
h1 {margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; text-align: center;}
p.auth {font-size:.8em; margin-bottom: 2em; text-align: center}

Text:
<h1>LOVE AMOUNG<br/>the<br/>CHICKENS</h1>
<p class="auth">by P. G. Wodehouse</p>

The first example would keep the "author" line right below the title and apply all the other formatting of the <h1>, while the second example would have a 2em space between the title and author... pick your poison.

In fact, if you want to create a linefeed within the same container - without creating a new container - it is appropriate to use <br/>. GrannyGrump's use of <br/> inside of the <div> is much better/cleaner than the multiple <div> statements. The <br/> is used as a linefeed without having to reapply the container's formatting (margin's, padding, indent, etc), it simply continues on the next line. According to W3Schools "Use the <br> tag to enter line breaks, not to separate paragraphs."

Cheers,