Quotation by Edgar Allan Poe

In the tale proper—where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident—mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. author. "Marginalia 273," Southern Literary Messenger (1849).

Stressing form over psychological realism.
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