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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Poets of Revolt aka Free-Versers
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 01:23:45 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> 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..?

I wonder sometimes.