Are you sure "notions of form" are the problem, David? Seems like
say if you look at "Speech, Speech!" by G. Hill the problem he's
confronting is one of diction & idiom. I think the deliquescence
(supposed) of meter & form is inseparable from those "problems" -
When General Jackson
Posed for his statue
He knew how one feels.
Shall a man go barefoot
Blinking and blank?
But how does one feel?
One grows used to the weather,
The landscape and that;
And the sublime comes down
To the spirit itself,
The spirit and space,
The empty spirit
In vacant space.
What wine does one drink?
What bread does one eat?
from Wallace Stevens, "The American Sublime" [1935]
