What Happened To Poetry In The Twentieth

I Don't See That A Single Line Can Constitute A Stanza, Although It Can Constitute A Whole Poem.

Windbags Can Be Right. Aphorists Can Be Wrong. It Is A Tough World.

English Poetry Begins Whenever We Decide To Say The Modern English Language Begins, And It Extends As Far As We Decide To Say That The English Language Extends.

At Somewhere Around 10 Syllables, The English Poetic Line Is At Its Most Relaxed And Manageable.

A Poem With Grandly Conceived And Executed Stanzas, Such As One Of Keats's Odes, Should Be Like An Enfilade Of Rooms In A Palace: One Proceeds, With Eager Anticipation, From Room To Room.