I find a lot of 20 th century poets simply frauds, who would chop up prose any old way, and present it as poetry. In an ideal world a poet should have the simple craft to do both rhyme and meter, and all traditional forms, and also free verse, and be able to make a simple choice. I am also a New Romantic Poet, as romantic themes very much inspire my muse, and I’m in no way ashamed of that. I regard myself as a hybrid New Formalist, since I both love rhyme and meter, but very much also enjoy writing free verse. We trace our roots to the romantics of the early 19 th Century, which 20 th century poets did so much to rail against, and back to Chaucer, and thence Homer, and are part of the great tradition in poetry. The New Formalists are certainly still in the minority with the free verse crowd still holding sway, but we are now of greatly growing influence, and very much the cutting edge of poetry.
I have found out from careful and diligent study that I belong the New Formalist School which began in the mid seventies, at time when you could get lynched as a fascist for mentioning meter and verse in poetry circles. I was rather lost as to my place in the history of poetry due to the fact that I felt very indifferent to most 20 th Century poetry.
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