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Example sentences for "free verse"

  • In 1914, founded and edited The Glebe, which issued the first anthology of free verse.

  • In judging her work, consider separately her poems in regular metrical form and those in free verse.

  • He is an experimenter in free verse forms as well as in impressions.

  • He is one of the most skilful manipulators of free verse--he can drive four horses abreast, and somehow or other reach the goal.

  • The first piece, Akra the Slave (1904), is a romantic monologue in free verse.

  • He has this in common with the practicers of free verse, with the imagists, with the futurists; he is not in the least afraid of seeming ridiculous.

  • Smooth technique is a fine thing in art; but I do not care whether a poem is written in conventional metre or in free verse, so long as it is unmistakably poetry.

  • But I do object to free verse when it is organized into a cult that denies other freedoms to other poets!

  • And also I object to the unfairness of some of the advocates of free verse.

  • The bulk of the poetry of the future may very likely be written in free verse forms, or in prose.

  • Most of the poetry of the Bible is really in free verse; it is poetry, however, not because of the free verse, but because it presents universal phases of human ecstasy.

  • He rightly pointed out that passages of prose have a rhythm which in nowise differs from the rhythm of free verse.

  • The question of free verse, naturally will come in for consideration.

  • Now no one can snap a Kodak effectively without putting into practice the first of these conceptions: nor understand the "new music" and "free verse" without reckoning with both the second and the third.

  • It will be observed that in the special sort of picture-making which Imagist poetry achieves, the question of free verse is merely incidental.

  • This is one of hackerdom's great heroic epics, free verse or no.

  • In bouncing around the net it apparently got modified into the `free verse' form now popular.

  • Let them thrill us in the old authentic manner by their "free verse" and we will acknowledge them as true descendants of Catullus and Keats, of Villon and Verlaine!

  • The curious spell which these simple and in some cases infantile rhymes cast over us, ought to compel the more fanatical adherents of "free verse" to rearrange their ideas.

  • Walt Whitman, however he may have been deceived about the social and democratic character of his form, was not deceived, as the modern eulogists of free verse are, about its subtlety.

  • The Imagist fights for "free verse" as for the principle of liberty.

  • If "free verse" is musical, if it expresses a mood or an emotion or a thought in terms that appeal to the mind or the heart or the imagination, why should it be necessary to fight for it?

  • He wrote a novel on temperance, "mostly in the reading-room of Tammany Hall," and tried here and there an experiment in free verse.

  • This is a highly technical question, involving a more accurate notation than has thus far been made of the patterns and tunes of free verse and of emotional prose.

  • Then followed the new gospel, "I celebrate myself," chanted in long lines of free verse, whose patterns perplexed contemporary readers.

  • I do not speak of the very important part he has had in the difficult conquest of free verse; my impression is more general and deeper and concerns itself not only with the form, but with the essence of his art.

  • Whatever has been written since, in free verse or fixed, betrays through conformity or re-action, the mark of that doctrine and the resultant movement.


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