New Formalism is a late-20th and early 21st century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical and rhymed verse.
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“It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child’s interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (20th century)