The Enclosures of Free Verse
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- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 216
- Published
- 2026
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
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The story
Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter, and that free verse liberated poets from the fetters of old forms.
In this version of literary history, free verse saved poetry from cultural irrelevance and marked a broadly oppositional politics.
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