A novel-length narrative work composed in verse rather than prose, sustaining the scope, character development and plotted structure of a novel across an extended poem, a hybrid form running from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin through the contemporary young-adult verse novel revival.
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Place of OriginRussia, early 19th century, with roots in earlier verse romance; revived internationally in the 20th-21st centuries. 1 StructureExtended narrative organized in verse, in either a fixed stanza form repeated throughout (as in Eugene Onegin's own sonnet-like stanza) or free verse, sustaining novelistic scope and plotted development. 1 Notable ExampleAlexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1833) and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986), a modern novel in Onegin stanzas. 1 Connections
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Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
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