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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Poets of Revolt aka Free-Versers / Strange Bedfellows
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 12:02:16 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> Zod wrote:
>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>>>> Okay, again, eight years ago was when I was reading and reading about
>>>>>> Mina Loy:
>
>>>>>>> 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 Ezra 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
>>>>>>> Vachel 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."
>
>>>>>> HTH and HAND.
>
>>> Interesting history piece...
>
>
>> It even got trolls like Pendragon interested.
>
>
> Pen seems to have left us...?

He's back now as "Harry Lime"...

But YOU are gone.

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