Search Results for: The Origins Of Free Verse

Argues that free verse has deep historical roots, and traces them, from Milton to contemporary poetry

Concentrates on the origins and growth of the modern free verse movement. The title, however, does not imply an exclusive preoccupation with form, since it also

This book examines the most salient and misunderstood aspect of twentieth-century poetry, free verse. Although the form is generally approached as if it were on

Kohl's revised doctoral thesis (U. of London, 1988) analyzes Klopstock's poems and shows their rhetorical structure and the biblical foundations of language, im