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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: H.D. poetry
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 07:12:22 +0000
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Terry Stomp wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Heat, by H.D.
>>>
>>> O wind, rend open the heat,
>>> cut apart the heat,
>>> rend it to tatters.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2018/08/heat-hd.html
>> Hilda Doolittle, nice find, one of the original American avant-garde:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.arts.poetry.comments/UgluDPA17qs/8qwh1beTCQAJ
>>
>> 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. aka Hilda Doolittle
>> 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."
>
> Right on...

Agreed and seconded.