Lovers of poetry may wonder what happened to meter and rhyme. If one looks at modern poetry, one finds little meter and even less rhyme. Which raises the troubling question "What is poetry?" to which centuries have not provided a compelling answer.Most famous among English attempts is Coleridge's "the best words in the best order." But what are the best words, what is the best order? That could be debated till the co…
SOURCE: John Simon at 10:03AM on November 11, 2011