description: Poet/critic Silkin begins from the premise that two modes of verse, free and metrical, engage the creative energies of poetry now. He reads the work of Whitman, Hopkins, Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, Dylan Thomas, Bunting and ten British poets from the post-Second World War period to illustrate how free and metrical verse create separately or together a poetic harmony. He includes statements on modern poetry from poets, and concludes with a memoir of Basil Bunting by Connie Pickard. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry
titlecomplete: The Life of Metrical and Free Verse in Twentieth-Century Poetry
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan