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a. rawlings
Andrei Gheorghe
Bengt Emil Johnson
Brussels
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Charles Bernstein
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Ezra Pound
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The longest poem in the world
trans-series
Translation
William Blake
The Longest Poem in the World
Three hundred and fifty thousand, seven hundred and fourteen verses. Twenty lines per verse, and every line rhymes with the following one. That’s how long Andrei Gheorghe’s poem is. It’s almost four times longer than the Mahabharata of ancient India. Forty times longer than The Iliad and The Odyssey combined and twenty times longer... »
