Rhyme averse: the changing trends of poetry

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  For Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher,

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  poetry was simply writing that fails to reach the end of the line.

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  For W. H. Auden, a poet,

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  poetry was that which makes nothing happen.

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  Arnold Bennett, a writer, disagreed.

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  He thought poetry was very powerful.

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  The mere word poetry could, he said,

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  scatter a crowd faster than a fire hose.

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  What unites these descriptions of poetry is that Non uses the word rhyme.

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  When A. E. Houseman, a poet,

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  gave a 51-page lecture titled The Name and Nature of Poetry in 1933,

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  he used the word rhyme just once,

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  and then only in the phrase bad rhyme.

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