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The fortunes of formalism.
Of the three books currently on my night table--a flaking early edition of the poems of Abraham Cowley, a coffee-table book on wooden boats, and a book from 1911 entitled A Study of Versification, by Professor Brander Matthews of Columbia University--most worrisome is the book on versification. What could be more superfluous than a turn-of-the-last-century volume on English prosody? Taking a verse manual as bedtime reading is like nodding off to sleep counting herds of sheep in The Domesday Book of William the Conqueror, a wealth of once useful and now extremely arcane information. This blue palm-sized book--bound in imitation, I suspect, of Oxford's landmark Clarendon ...
- Disorderly Orders: Free Verse, Chaos, and the Tradition.
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review LAKE, PAUL September 22, 1998 700+ words
At present, the term "free verse" is used to describe a multitude...self-similar lines, then free verse might be defined negatively...which tradition calls sonnet, blank-verse monologue, rhyming quatrain...organizing systems: flow. Free verse is much more recent in ...
- blank verse
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 blank verse unrhymed verse; esp., unrhymed verse having five iambic feet per line, as in Elizabethan drama: cf. free verse Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse.
- Magazine article from: The Southern Review Stanford, Donald E. March 22, 1995 700+ words
...chief proponent of the free verse movement) and his friend...they remarked that free verse experiments had gone...accents, is superior to free verse or purely accentual poetry...Pinkerton's poems in blank verse, "On Dorothea Lange...
- Translating free verse: two poems from Jaccottet's 'On voit.'.
- Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies Scott, Clive December 1, 1998 700+ words
...argue that the peculiar challenge of free verse lies in its being, at one and the same...other hand, it is easy to assimilate free verse to a kind of montage writing, or engineer...experience; as Yves Bonnefoy puts it: Free verse is poetry, in its necessary freedom...
- Written from the heart: Free verse gives special beat to author's book.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Campbell, Janis April 1, 2004 700+ words
...whose latest book, "Heartbeat,'' is written in free verse. ___ Sharon Creech has written some of our favorite...Heartbeat." The book is written in what is called free verse. Free verse is a type of poetry that doesn't have regular...
- Wordsworth, free verse and exteriority.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: Wordsworth Circle Howarth, Peter January 1, 2003 700+ words
...sponsors most of the modernist arguments for free verse (The New Poetries 64). "Since Dryden...when Ezra Pound began to proselytise for free verse a century later, his terms are exactly...preconceived and childish formality; free verse permits the poet all this individuality...
- Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse.(Review) (book review)
- ANQ BEYERS, CHRIS March 22, 2000 700+ words
...Burns. Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998. xii...Cooper's Mysterious Music: Rhythm and Free Verse can be grouped with such books as Richard...this century's dominant verse form, free verse. Although most of us think we know free...
- Free-verse poems in fixed forms: tracing the "silhouette" of Zheng Chouyu's...
- Magazine article from: Texas Studies in Literature and Language Chiu, Julie June 22, 2005 700+ words
...and of the early Symbolist-Modernist free verse. Hu's proposal of "natural sound...in his effort to establish a Modernist free-verse form in Chinese poetry, put forth his...works, while justifiably classified as free verse, show mostly a creative adaptation of...
