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“The forms of the short, written poem as they have been developed in English over the past few centuries can be usefully seen as compressed, truncated, or fragmented imitations of other verbal forms, especially the play, story, public oration, and personal essay.”

Quote by Robert Scholes

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Robert Scholes (May 19, 1929 - 2016) was an American scholar whose work spanned the fields of literary theory, comparative literature, and critical theory. He was a prominent figure in the development of 20th-century literary theory. more

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