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Elizabeth Vandiver, ‘“The best Greek poets used a kind of free verse”: the Imagists, vers libre, and ancient metrics’
Elizabeth Vandiver, ‘“The best Greek poets used a kind of free verse”: the Imagists, vers libre, and ancient metrics’
Professor Elizabeth Vandiver (Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics, Whitman College, USA) Abstract: The use of vers libre was one of the hallmarks of Imagist poetry; one of the six principles of Imagism printed in the Preface to the 1915 anthology Some Imagist Poets (edited by Amy Lowell) said, ‘We believe that the individuality of a poet may […]