Re: Poets of Revolt aka Free-Versers / Strange Bedfellows

On Monday, October 17, 2024 at 1:28:42 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

General-Zod wrote:
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Will Dockery wrote:

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Zod wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

Zod wrote:

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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".

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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..."

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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.

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In addition, there were other distinctive factions during

1910-1917 and beyond...

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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.

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Poets loosely associated with these groups included:
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Richard Aldington
Amy Lowell
Vacel Lindsay
Harry Kemp
Donald Evans
Allen Norton
Louise Norton
H.D.
Mina Loy
William Carlos Williams
Alfred Kreymborg
Ezra Pound
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In the Saturday Evening Post of April 7th 1917 Sinclair Lewis

wrote:

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"It is called /free verse/ because it doesn't pay."
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And so it goes.

Histories of the best of poets... the modernists.....

I need to bring this book back down from the shelf soon.
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Currently I'm reading "True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan

Lee" and rereading Jack Kerouac's "Vanity of Duluoz".

Stan The Man...!!

A good book, though much darker than most people would expect.

Interesting, I like those ole comix....

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I just bought the Dr. Strange collection, 1963-66, good art and story.

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Very cool work....!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWzlQ2N6qqg

Yes, "Thor: Love and Thunder" turned out pretty good, also.

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As I am seeing...!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNro_55dnRQ