And judging from some of their results, I am inclined to agree with them. I know that many of the new writers insist that it is harder to write good vers libre than to write good rhymed poetry.
(In the environs of Boston and Amherst the British accent was still studiously cultivated.)
If we heard Emily Dickinson speak today, she would probably sound more British than American. I also don’t feel a uniquely modern American diction in her poetry (as opposed to British). Some readers might argue for Emily Dickinson, but Dickinson never ventured beyond the common meter of the hymn and ballad. ~ EA Robinsonīefore Frost brought a vernacular gait to Iambic Pentameter, Robinson was the first poet to bring a modern American diction to meter and form. About the best I can say is that the best free verse that I have seen contains subject matter for good poems.
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