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The Pantoum originated in France, based on a form from Malaya. The Pantoums name and form derive from the Malayan pantun. Historically, the Pantoum became popular in Europe and later North America in the nineteeth and especially the twentieth century. The Pantoum tradition as a poem first appeared in France, in the work of Ernest Fouinet in the nineteenth century. Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire made the form fashionable. For more on this history and for examples of the Pantoum, see The Making of a Poem, edited by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland.

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