In 1957 Donald Hall published recen...

In 1957 Donald Hall published recent Poets of England and America, an anthology he edited with Robert Pack and Louis Simpson; it has been widely regarded as a defense of the academic poesy of the era. Chicago Review was publishing rhyme by many of the contributors to this collection (notably Philip Booth John Hollander, Howard Mos and William Jay Smith) and had included of the present day work by each of the collection's editors, on a level as the journal had promot formally-innovative work by way of e. e. cummings and William Carlos Williams. Hall himself would in a short time come to champion new author of poemss who followed ...