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

Will Dockery wrote:

Zod wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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Okay, again, eight years ago was when I was reading and reading about
Mina Loy:

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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 Ezra 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
Vachel 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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HTH and HAND.

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Interesting history piece...

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It even got trolls like Pendragon interested.

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Pen seems to have left us...?