Add to ORKGAccording to one familiar, much reiterated version of literary history, free verse was invented in pre-war London by Ezra Pound. It then quickly and decisively triumphed over poetry in traditional metres to become a new stylistic orthodoxy. In fact, English poets had been writing in versions of free verse for many centuries; by the end of the nineteenth century metrical discomfort and some degree of resistance to inherited iambic forms had become practically the norm. As Joseph Phelan puts it..
International audienceThis chapter discusses ways in which British and Irish poets of the period 196...
In a country like Ireland, where “cultural difference […] is almost invariably construed as ‘diversi...
The purpose of this work is to identify the patterns of imagism, its system, language, and material ...
This chapter fastens on the ‘first moment in literary history when poetry was not expected to follow...
Introduction. William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the XX ce...
This thesis discusses the notion of free verse in poetry with emphasis on Walt Whitman and Amy Lowel...
Yeats’s acute sense of the poet’s labour, a labour that makes rhyme one of those ‘befitting emblems ...
Seen in the broader context of European modernism, British modernist literature stands out through t...
In late October 1934, Yeats agreed to take on the editorship of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, a r...
What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign bu...
"First published in 1906."Rhythm and meter.--The pentameter line.--Blank verse.--Rhymed pentameters....
“Changing Times: Kipling, Eliot, Yeats, and the Measure of Modernity,” examines the understudied dis...
Drawing a history of free verse requires as a first step an investigation of the definitions which t...
Through the bewildering array of aesthetic theories and literary movements that Ezra Pound would ado...
This creative project has been an experiment in the writing of poetry based on a continuing study of...
International audienceThis chapter discusses ways in which British and Irish poets of the period 196...
In a country like Ireland, where “cultural difference […] is almost invariably construed as ‘diversi...
The purpose of this work is to identify the patterns of imagism, its system, language, and material ...
This chapter fastens on the ‘first moment in literary history when poetry was not expected to follow...
Introduction. William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the XX ce...
This thesis discusses the notion of free verse in poetry with emphasis on Walt Whitman and Amy Lowel...
Yeats’s acute sense of the poet’s labour, a labour that makes rhyme one of those ‘befitting emblems ...
Seen in the broader context of European modernism, British modernist literature stands out through t...
In late October 1934, Yeats agreed to take on the editorship of the Oxford Book of Modern Verse, a r...
What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign bu...
"First published in 1906."Rhythm and meter.--The pentameter line.--Blank verse.--Rhymed pentameters....
“Changing Times: Kipling, Eliot, Yeats, and the Measure of Modernity,” examines the understudied dis...
Drawing a history of free verse requires as a first step an investigation of the definitions which t...
Through the bewildering array of aesthetic theories and literary movements that Ezra Pound would ado...
This creative project has been an experiment in the writing of poetry based on a continuing study of...
International audienceThis chapter discusses ways in which British and Irish poets of the period 196...
In a country like Ireland, where “cultural difference […] is almost invariably construed as ‘diversi...
The purpose of this work is to identify the patterns of imagism, its system, language, and material ...