Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Possibilities of an American Poetry
The Free Verse school seems to be the more in?uential and grow ing. Almost all the magazines are partially Open to them and the leading poetry magazines are about three quarters or exclusively devoted to their interests. Great defenses and products are made by geniuses who are using this method. Their books find publication and an increasing number of defenders and readers. The movement has hardly reached full tide yet. A far better and nobler free verse is possible and will no doubt come. The free versers certainly have some of the future. This is not surprising for the method of this school is the perfect manifestation of the dynamic American spirit. There are some things to be said and must be said against the old. Poetry and there are some things that can be said, must be said and will be said for the new. Whatever may be the final contribution and last judgment on free verse it is doing in some respects a good work for poetry and ought to be thoroughly grasped and appreciated in its real spirit.
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