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'Free Verse' as Formal Restraint - Crozier, Andrew, and Prynne, J H (Afterword by), and Brinton, Ian (Editor)
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This volume contains the remarkable PhD thesis submitted by Crozier in 1972, and for which his external examiner was J.H. Prynne-whose comments on the thesis are also included here, as an afterword. "My intention in writing this thesis has been to cast some light on the prima facie case that free verse, in abandoning the exercise of metre, has abandoned that principle of restraint upon which the creation of artistic form depends. This point of view contrasts with a general contention on the part of the exponents of free ...

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'Free Verse' as Formal Restraint 2015, Shearsman Books, Exeter

ISBN-13: 9781848613966

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