Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Champa (novel)
https://books.google.com.np/books?id=Hxn3eKLVJlkC Here, a book published by an '''American press''', written by '''Michael Hutt (academic and translator)|a westerner with a Wikipedia article''' '''in English language''' says—When a truly great poet appears during an important phase in the development of a particular literature, the fortunes of that literature are changed forever. All poets who follow are bound to the traditions that their great predecessor has established, even if it is only in the sense that these become the conventions against which they rebel, the norms from which they make their departures. The contributions made to the development of Nepali poetry by Bhanubhakta, Bhatta, Lekhnath, and Sama have been fundamental, yet Devkota stands head and shoulders above all of these. An American scholar of comparative literature has written, "In Devkota we see the entire Romantic era of Nepali literature" (Rubin 1980, 5), but this is an oversimplification or even an understatement. In Nepali, Devkota's works have formed a colossal touchstone and are the undisputed classics of his language.{{pb}}In the short space of twenty-five years Devkota produced more than forty books, and his works included plays, stories, essays, translations from world literature, '''a novel''', and poems that ranged in length from a 4-line rhyme to an epic of 1,754 verses. His writings were certainly extraordinarily profuse, but they were also remarkable for their intellectual and creative intensity. Devkota rarely returned to a poem to revise or edit, being in too great a hurry to commence his next composition, nor was he averse to using little-known dialect words to enrich his vocabulary. As a result, some poems suffer from obscurities that puzzle even the most scholarly Nepali reader. Nevertheless, '''little that Devkota wrote would now be considered dispensable'''.(emphasis mine) Is that enough for #C5? If not, please tell me why that criterion even exists, since we don't need it to justify keeping works of Shakespeare and Milton
— User:Usedtobecool, 04:58, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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