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comment by humanodon

You argued on the basis of convention. Convention changes over time to include new things, which I am certain Eliot would also agree with, especially as Eliot's own work did not follow the conventions of the day. When art becomes tradition, is it still art? Maybe, but part of art is exploring the new. The emphasis on narrative poems as well as the emergence of prose poems and micro or flash fiction might well indicate the creation of another genre in time, but I don't think anything so cohesive has yet coalesced.