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Book Chapter
The Institution of Meter
2012
Overview
Robert Bridges’s experimental and dynamic poetic forms (and his discussions of these forms) were central to the changing perception of English meter from the late Victorian to the postwar period. Bridges’s role in the prosody wars, in particular, complicates the accepted narrative of the rise of free verse, and shows how the consolidated concept of traditional meters was challenged not only from the modernist avant-garde but also from poets who had been expanding the concept of English meter throughout the late nineteenth century. The dynamism of meter in English and Bridges’s deep commitment, not unlike that of Ezra Pound’s, to
