@inproceedings{oai:kokubunken.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002007,
 author = {キーン, デニス and KEENE, Dennis},
 book = {国際日本文学研究集会会議録, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE},
 issue = {1},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {pdf, Perhaps the most difficult thing to account for in the history of modern Japanese literature is the fact that poets should have taken twenty years longer than novelists to adopt the colloquial language as their means of expression. Clearly this was conditioned by the particular awareness that Japanese writers had of the distinctions between prose and what, for want of a better word, must be called verse; and this awareness can be well seen in the literary movement of the early years of the Shōwa period known as the “New Prose Poem Movement“.
In using prose for poetic statement these writers seem to have had two principal aims in mind; a rejection of the dominant “song” tradition of Japanese poetry, and the imposition of artistic shape upon the sentimental prolixities, indeed the “prosaicisms”， of the free verse poem as written by the “Democratic School“ of poets. However, the actual result was that Japanese poetry became committed to the idea of modernistic experiment, since the use of the colloquial language with a consequent loss of a centuries' old rhythmic tradition, seemed to require constant change and be unable to create that sense of linguistic continuity which the poetic act normally implies.},
 pages = {65--73},
 publisher = {国文学研究資料館},
 title = {研究発表　「新散文詩」について},
 year = {1978},
 yomi = {キーン, デニス}
}