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: Re: Person who invented "formula" for good poetry I remember hearing about this formula where it showed a graph of what makes a poem good. It had something to do with increasing length to increase

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Are you talking about the famous J. Evans Pritchard quoted in Dead Poets Society? He is apparently a pseudonym for Laurence Perrine, and the text is more or less taken from Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry.

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