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Free Verse
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Free Verse, (Vers Libre), poetry without a fixed metrical pattern, having a loosely organized rhythm. It is to be found in the work of some 19th‐century American poets, e.g. Whitman and Stephen Crane, but it has been commonly employed only since World War I, its earlier users including the Imagists, Sandburg, Masters, Pound, and E.E. Cummings.
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free verse
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
free verse term loosely used for rhymed or unrhymed verse made free of conventional and traditional limitations and restrictions...is often substituted for regular metrical pattern. Free verse is a literal translation of the French vers libre...
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Free Verse
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Free Verse, (Vers Libre) , poetry without a fixed metrical pattern, having a loosely organized rhythm. It is to be found in the work...
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...POETRY Literary composition in verse form. It is often the case...quality, while to discuss it as verse relates to technique used in...technique and the phrase superb verse may imply poetic excellence...within the chosen form, even of free verse, distances the poem from...
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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