The Rhapsodic Fallacy

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 'The Rhapsodic Fallacy' is an essay by United States poet Mary Kinzie in which she defines and attacks a rhapsodic conception of poetry. It was first published in Salmagundi 65 of Fall 1984 and was collected in The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling, and a somewhat shorter version of the essay was later anthologized in Twentieth-Century American Poetics The essay was one of several of the mid 1980s that sparked a heated discussion over the role of form in American poetry, and was thus implicated in the formation of the New Formalism movement.