The question of form …

… Hard Line Politics: On the Myth of Free Verse - Los Angeles Review of Books. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Though the stigmatizing of meter represents a wrong turn in the history of criticism, it produced some revolutionary styles and techniques that might not have emerged otherwise. It opened up a market once dominated by meter — a market whose barriers were easy to conflate with the rules of meter itself. As often happens, however, the successful revolution bred a new establishment, which has grown nearly as rigid as its predecessor.