The origins of free verse
By: H.T. Kirby-Smith.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: American poetry -- History and criticism.; Free verse -- History and criticism.; English language -- Versification.; English poetry -- History and criticism.; Imagist poetry -- History and criticism.
Description: xiv, 304 p. ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-289) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some preliminary issues; title: The problems of organic form; title: Can free verse be classified?; title: The first cycle; title: "Those monstrous compositions"; title: From Romantic afflatus to Victorian contraption; title: Bards and prophets; title: "No verse is really free"; title: Ideogrammatology; title: The prose poem.