Thinking about how weird it would sound if critics talked about "the poem" they way they do "the novel"
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Replying to @evankindley
"The novel" is a form created in historical time, poetry a form that goes back to the immemorial past of the species.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I don’t understand why that would affect whether the word takes a singular or a plural
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Replying to @evankindley
Well, I think fact long-form prose fiction has historical trajectory makes it easier to talk about as something definitive ("the" novel) rather than general (poetry). I could be wrong!
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