🚀 go-pugleaf

Zod wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 5:55:42 PM UTC-4, Edward Rochester Esq. wrote:
>> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 4:19:57 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> > 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.
>> > Mirna 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."
>> >
>> > And so it goes... so it shall ever be.
>> >
>> > :D
>> Will...you just might like to check out Frank Stamford..died way too young.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/frank-stanford
>

> He is a good and unsung poet...

At least we keep his poetry alive here.