Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
For a work in this literary form about Joseph Stalin, Acmeist Osip Mandelstam was exiled. The form reached its pinnacle in France through the Maximes of Duke de La Rochefoucauld and an adaptation known as a sinngedicht engaged German taste beginning in the 18th century. Samuel Taylor Coleridge described the form as "A dwarfish whole, // Its body brevity, and wit its soul." Originally an inscription suitable for carving on a monument --for 10 points-- name this literary form originated by Catullus and given its final form by Martial.
For a work in this literary form about Joseph Stalin, Acmeist Osip Mandelstam was exiled.
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