"If, after proper study, a verse does not clearly convey the circumstances and/or the emotion involved, it is not a haiku."
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Academics from the United StatesColumbia University alumniColumbia University facultyAmerican art historians
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Haiku in English'. Charles E. Tuttle 1967
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Harold Gould Henderson
Harold Gould Henderson (1889 – 1974) was an American academic, art historian and Japanologist
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