# The Enclosures of Free Verse, Vol. 1

By **Erin Joyce Kappeler**

- ISBN-13: 9781469693057
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 216
- Published: 24 Feb 2026

## About this book

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. This book

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