1) free verse. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...free verse, term loosely used for rhymed or unrhymed verse made free of conventional and traditional limitations and restrictions in regard to metrical structure....
2) Sandburg, Carl. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language:
Fourth Edition. 2000.
...American writer known for his free verse poems celebrating American people, geography, and industry and for his six-volume biography Abraham Lincoln (1926-1939)....
3) Leaves of Grass. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
2002
...Leaves of Grass (1855) A collection of poems by Walt Whitman, written mainly in free verse. Published with revisions every few years until Whitman s death in 1892,...
4) Neruda, Pablo. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Europe. A surrealist, Neruda revitalized everyday expressions and employed bold metaphors in free verse. His evocative poems are filled with grief and despair and...
5) Masters, Edgar Lee. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...from 1892 to 1920. Masters's Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of epitaphs in free verse revealing the secret lives of dead citizens, was acclaimed for its...
6) Fletcher, John Gould. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Sand and Spray (1915) and Goblins and Pagodas (1916). In later works Fletcher turned from free verse to more traditional forms. These include The Black Rock (1928),...
7) Regnier, Henri de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...of the circle of Mallarme. His early Poemes anciens et romanesques (1891) showed skill in free verse, but his style soon changed to follow classical models, chiefly...
8) Shapiro, Karl Jay. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English
Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...American poet and critic known for his early poems concerning World War II and his later works in free verse....
9) Aleixandre, Vicente. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...o el amor (1935, tr. 1976) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976. His earlier verse, often free in form, is pessimistic and surrealistic. His later verse is marked...
10) Ginsberg, Allen. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...values in the 1950s. The prose of Jack Kerouac, the insights of Zen Buddhism, and the free verse of Walt Whitman were some of the sources for Ginsberg's quest to...
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