Will Dockery wrote:

> Zod wrote:

>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>
>>> Nice section in the book Strange Bedfellows (And "The History of Modern
>>> Poetry", Page 311 by David Perkins, which is where Steven Watson seems to
>>> have gotten most of his information) about the movement that took off around
>>> 1910 (and not before in any major way, although the form can be traced back
>>> as far as Beowulf, the writer claims) the "Poets of Revolt" aka "Free
>>> Versers".
>>>
>>> Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell seem to me to be the most famous poets of this
>>> group. In 1912, Pound wrote "I believe in /Absolute Rhythm/, that is [...]
>>> poetry that corresponds exactly to the emotion being expressed..."
>>>
>>> The Poets of Revolt term was supposedly generic for the new poets, the
>>> writers of the 1910s also known as "free-versers" and vers librists, because
>>> they championed the rise of free verse, which replaced fixed stanzas, meter
>>> and rhyme with Absolute Rhythm, as Erza Pound called it.
>>>
>>> In addition, there were other distinctive factions during 1910-1917 and
>>> beyond...
>>>
>>> The Tramp Poets (!) aka Hobohemians, led by Vachel Lindsay, Harry Kemp and
>>> others, The Patagonians, Imagists and the Otherists all fit under the
>>> generic (and sometimes sneering) label of Poets of Revolt, the Free-Versers.
>>>
>>> Poets loosely associated with these groups included:
>>>
>>> Richard Aldington
>>> Amy Lowell
>>> Vacel Lindsay
>>> Harry Kemp
>>> Donald Evans
>>> Allen Norton
>>> Louise Norton
>>> H.D.
>>> Mina Loy
>>> William Carlos Williams
>>> Alfred Kreymborg
>>> Ezra Pound
>>>
>>> In the Saturday Evening Post of April 7th 1917 Sinclair Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>> "It is called /free verse/ because it doesn't pay."
>>>
>>> And so it goes... so it shall ever be.

>> For those who know little about the now fairly obscure poets of the "Modern era"... a read will get you up to speed....

> PJR, if you're looking.

> HTH and HAND.

Did Peter die..?