In a wide-ranging and compelling account of the life of metrical and free verse in the twentieth century, poet and critic Jon Silkin deepens our understanding of the way poetry works on us.
Acknowledgements - Note on the Scansion Marks - Note on the References - The Healing Process: Metrical and Free Verse - Imagism, Lawrence, Pound, Read and Eliot - Ezra Pound: Propertius, make love, not war - Lawrence, poet - Dylan Thomas - Some Poets Now - References - Appendices - Index
