SOURCE: “Robert Bridges and the Free Verse Rebellion,” in Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 2, No. 1, September 1971, pp. 19-32.
In the following essay, Stanford suggests that while Bridges was actively interested in the free verse movement of much younger poets such as Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound, the older poet nevertheless held to the traditional belief that the subjects of poems should be weighty matters rather than “trivial” items, such as a wheelbarrow, which interested the younger poets.
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