22) §18. Contemporary Poetry. X. Later Poets. Vol. 17. Later National Literature, Part II. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...in posse, than from anyone else. To him, and of course to others, they owe their usual form, free verse, and their point of view, that of an exaggerated individualism,...

23) §12. Somervile s "Chace" and other Poems. V. Thomson and Natural Description in Poetry. Vol. 10. The Age of Johnson. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...he was as entirely free as he was from Thomson s sympathy with the victims of the chase. His poems are in no sense dull reading; but his blank verse, suave and regular,...

24) Merrill, James. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...is noted for the technical virtuosity, elegant formality, refined lyricism, and witty urbanity of verse that, while always reserved, became more autobiographical,...

25) §6. Morris s prose narratives. V. The Rossettis, William Morris, Swinburne, and Others. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...for the Odyssey, and his last original book of verse was the collection of lyrics and ballads, Poems by the Way, issued from the Kelmscott press in 1891. His activities...

26) Norwegian literature. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...a new humanism. In the 17th cent. few works other than the poems and histories of Petter Dass were free of arid learning, excessive adornment, and latinization. Rationalist...

27) Pound, Ezra Loomis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...the imagists and later championing vorticism. Both these movements sought to free post-Victorian verse from its staleness and conventionality. Pound encouraged many...

28) §22. W. M. Wilks Call; T. T. Lynch. VI. Lesser Poets of the Middle and Later Nineteenth Century. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...undogmatism, unorthodoxy, or whatever it pleases to call itself, also produced a number of verse-writers too large to be dealt with here except by sample. The best...

29) §7. "Snow-Bound". XIII. Whittier. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
...of a Wayside Inn. The company are three in number, Fields the lettered magnate and Taylor the free cosmopolite being foregathered on Salisbury Beach with Whittier,...

30) Whitman, Walt. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of Grass, unconventional in both content and technique, is probably the most influential volume of poems in the history of American literature. 1 Early LifeWhitman...