<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=562119" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Long Poems & Short Stories</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some think that a story has no place<br>in poetry - 'Put it in the short stories, '<br>he said, dismissing a poem I wrote<br>as a narrative, as though such verse<br>must be relegated to short fiction.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Must I go back to Beowulf, composed<br>in the first half of the eighth century, <br>to illustrate the validity of the form<br>(written in meter without using rime) ? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book<br>is a long poem of dramatic monologues<br>in twelve books concerning a murder<br>and an adulterous affair in Florence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Less scribbling and more reading<br>might improve one's perspective, <br>don't you think?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Pruchnicki">Michael Pruchnicki</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=562119" data-title="Long Poems & Short Stories de Michael Pruchnicki" data-description="Some think that a story has no place in poetry - 'Put it in the short stories, ' he said, dismissing a poem I wrote as a narrative, as though such verse must be relegated to short fiction. Must I go back to Beowulf, composed in the first half of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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