General-Zod wrote:

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.
Mina Loy

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ø

I already posted that in my earliest reading of Mina Loy poetry I
misspelled her first name, but this was soon corrected.

I sure do want to read this boo, perhaps on thje next visit, save me one
of the cooffee packets that Rachel sent... eh??

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."

Good afternoon again, Zod, long time no see.

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