... centuries,” and the Elizabethan influence is apparent “even . . . in his . . .free-verse poems.” This influence is never academic: in Gunn's hands, the inherited forms and conventions seem utterly natural and breathe with his own modernity. As with Gunn's lovers, it is she who is the sexual aggressor...

... to the test, constructing coherent systems of feeling from irregular patterns of rhyme and pause. In doing so, he aspires to a new poetic idiom—distinct from both classical and romantic prosodies, and suggestive of modernist free verse—where form and feeling might be more perfectly in tune. Patmore Coventry...

... formalism free verse genetic formalism New Criticism rhyme Victorian poetry A Lume Spento Pound Barrett Browning Elizabeth blank verse Canzoni Pound Hallam Arthur H D Sea Garden Hegel G W F Herder J G Morris William Pound Ezra Prufrock and Other Observations Eliot Sea Garden H D sonnets...

...Reading “Meat” in its early incarnation as free verse against the final, more formal version included in Gunn's book The Man with Night Sweats shows us how a poet gets different effects from different forms, and how those effects change our experience of the poem. The writing...

...Free soil, free speech, free verse: though Leaves of Grass appeared under the shadow of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, it was the legislation that returned Lincoln to politics and Thoreau to public polemic. This chapter reviews Walt Whitman's poetic masterpiece and the battle over free...