New Formalism
Movement in American poetry / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the late 20th-century movement in literature. For the mid-20th-century style of architecture, see New Formalism (architecture).
New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry on the grounds that all three are necessary if American poetry is to compete with novels and regain its former popularity among the American people.[1]