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Article: A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women.
- Article from:
- The Southern Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
- Author:
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The great bulk of poetry published in the United States during the last eight decades has been written in free verse, but the free versifiers have not had it all their own way. Since the inception in or about 1915 of the imagist/free verse revolution, there have been several counterrevolutions favoring a return to what I here call formalist poetry, that is, poetry written in conventional prosody that can be scanned to indicate the use of iambic, trochaic, anapestic, or dactylic feet, or occasionally spondees. The first of these revolutions was led by Ezra Pound himself (the chief proponent of the free verse movement) and his friend T. S. Eliot. About 1920, they remarked ...
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