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Poets with tag Formalism:

New Formalism - movement returning to traditional poetic forms. New Formalism was a reaction against various perceived deficiencies in the practice of contemporary poets. In his 1987 piece "Notes on the New Formalism," Dana Gioia wrote: "the real issues presented by American poetry in the Eighties will become clearer: the debasement of poetic language; the prolixity of the lyric; the bankruptcy of the confessional mode; the inability to establish a meaningful aesthetic for new poetic narrative and the denial of a musical texture in the contemporary poem. The revival of traditional forms will be seen then as only one response to this troubling situation."

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Anne Kingsmill Finch	1661-1720	ENG	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Enlightenment	98	247
William Butler Yeats	1865-1939	IRL	Fantasy, Formalism, Modernism, Neoromanticism, Rhymers club, Sonnet, Spiritualism, Symbolism, Victorian	378	5
Robert Frost	1874-1963	USA	Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular	144	1
Wallace Stevens	1879-1955	USA	Blank verse, Cubism, Formalism, Modernism	85	35
Edna St. Vincent Millay	1892-1950	USA	Bipolar disorder, Didactism, Feminism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet	166	69
E.e. cummings	1894-1962	USA	Aestheticism, Dada, Didactism, Formalism, Modernism, Sonnet, Surrealism, Symbolism	190	15
Louise Bogan	1897-1970	USA	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Laureate	27	207
Harold Hart Crane	1899-1932	USA	Bipolar disorder, Blank verse, Committed suicide, Difficult, Fantasy, Formalism, Modernism	33	174
Allen Tate	1899-1979	USA	Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Southern Agrarians	74	260
Countee Cullen	1903-1946	AFR/USA	Formalism, Harlem Renaissance	34	293
W H Auden	1907-1973	ENG/USA	Auden Group, Christian, Formalism, Homoerotism, Modernism	113	211
Louis MacNeice	1907-1963	IRL	Auden Group, Formalism, Bipolar disorder	17	330
Theodore Roethke	1908-1963	USA	Formalism, Bipolar disorder, Nonsense	32	236
Stephen Spender	1909-1995	ENG	Auden Group, Formalism, Laureate	17	352
Weldon Kees	1914-1955	USA	Formalism, Jazz	39	169
Randall Jarrell	1914-1965	USA	Bipolar disorder, Children, Formalism, Fugitives, Laureate, Modernism, Neoromanticism, War	28	250
Robert Lowell	1917-1977	USA	Bipolar disorder, Confessionalism, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism	20	160
Howard Nemerov	1920-1991	USA	Formalism, Laureate	38	349
Philip Larkin	1922-1985	ENG	Agnosticism, Atheism, Formalism, The Movement	100	57
Donald Justice	1925-2004	USA	Formalism	32	303
Derek Walcott	1930-	LCA	Confessionalism, Formalism, Gothic, Imagism, Laureate, Methodism, National, Spiritualism, Surrealism	21	106

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