Editing Lyric poetry (section)

===20th century===
{{further|20th century lyric poetry}}In the earlier years of the 20th century rhymed lyric poetry, usually expressing the feelings of the poet, was the dominant poetic form in the United States,<ref>
{{cite book
 |last=MacGowan |first=Christopher
 |title=Twentieth-Century American Poetry
 |page=9
 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing
 |year=2004
 |isbn=0-631-22025-9
}}
</ref> Europe, and the [[British Empire|British colonies]]. The English [[Georgian poetry|Georgian poets]] and their contemporaries such as [[A. E. Housman]], [[Walter de la Mare]], and [[Edmund Blunden]] used the lyric form. The Bengali poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was praised by [[William Butler Yeats]] for his lyric poetry; Yeats compared him to the troubadour poets when the two met in 1912.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last=Foster |first=Robert
 |title=W.B. Yeats: A life
 |year=1998
 |page=496
 |publisher=Oxford University Press
 |place=[[Oxford, England]]
 |isbn=0-19-288085-3
}}
</ref>

The relevance and acceptability of the lyric in the modern age was, though, called into question by [[modernism|modernist]] poets such as [[Ezra Pound]], [[T. S. Eliot]], [[H.D.]], and [[William Carlos Williams]], who rejected the English lyric form of the 19th century, feeling that it relied too heavily on melodious language, rather than complexity of thought.<ref name=Beach-2003>
{{cite book
 |last=Beach |first=Christopher
 |year=2003
 |title=The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
 |page=49
 |place=[[Cambridge, England]]
 |publisher=Cambridge University Press
 |isbn=0-521-89149-3
}}
</ref>{{rp|page=49}}

After World War&nbsp;II, the American [[New Criticism]] returned to the lyric, advocating a poetry that made conventional use of rhyme, meter, and stanzas, and was modestly personal in the lyric tradition.<ref>
{{cite book
 |last=Fredman |first=Stephen
 |year=2005
 |title=A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
 |page=63
 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing
 |isbn=1-4051-2002-9
}}
</ref>

Lyric poetry dealing with relationships, sex, and domestic life constituted the new mainstream of American poetry in the middle of the 20th century, following such movements as the [[confessional poets]] of the 1950s and 1960s, who included [[Sylvia Plath]] and [[Anne Sexton]].<ref name="Beach-2003" />{{rp|page=155}} the [[Black Mountain poets|Black Mountain movement]] with [[Robert Creeley]], Organic Verse represented by [[Denise Levertov]], [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69406/projective-verse Projective verse] or "open field" composition as represented by [[Charles Olson]], and also [[Language poets|Language Poetry]] which aimed for extreme minimalism along with numerous other experimental verse movements throughout the remainder of the 20th century, up into today where these questions of what constitutes poetry, lyrical or otherwise, are still being discussed but now in the context of hypertext and multimedia as it is used via the Internet.