Richness of Greek classic poetry Homer Greek lyrical poetry Pindar Dramatic poetry Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides Greek comedy: Aristophanes Roman poetry Naevius, Plautus, Terence Roman epic poetry: Virgil Lyrical poetry: Horace, Catullus Didactic poetry: Lucretius Elegiac poetry: Ovid, Tibullus Satire: Horace, Martial, Juvenal Perfection of Greek prose writers History:

Many writers use the generic term "novel" to include all prose fiction.

R59370. SMITH, Frederick M. SEE Essays and studies, prose selections for college reading.

He answered in the affirmative; and added, that they contained minute details of the births, deaths, marriages, accidents, state of the weather and crops, arbitrations, public festivals, inventions, original poetry, and prose compositions.

The cadence of Burke's sentences always reminds us that prose writing is only to be perfected by a thorough study of the poetry of the language.

SEE STOKES, JOHN H. STONE, BERNARD. Poetry and prose readings.

My Last Duchess Mysteries of Udolpho, The ([=u]-dol'f[=o]) Mystery plays New Atalantis Newcomes, The Newman, Cardinal; life; prose works; poems; style Newspapers, the first Nibelungenlied (n[=e]'b[)e]-lung-en-l[=e]d) Noah, Play of Norman Conquest Norman pageantry Norman period.

There have been several collections of stories from the Novellists of Italy, but none from the Poets; and it struck me that prose versions from these, of the kind here offered to the public, might not be unwillingly received.

" "As M. Jourdain talked prose all his life without knowing it.

These tales, apparently almost unknown before the twelfth century, soon became so popular that in the course of the next two centuries they had given birth to more than a dozen poems and prose romances, whence Malory drew the materials for his version of the story of King Arthur.

Verse and prose technique, a study in rhythm and tone color.

Version en prose moderne par Andre Mary.

CRANE, WILLIAM G Wit and rhetoric in the Renaissance; the formal basis of Elizabethan prose style.

Of course, there was a great green and gold Shakespeare, not a properly expurgated edition for female seminaries, either, nor even prose tales from Shakespeare adapted to young readers, but the real thing.

SEE Pieper, Charles J. BECHTEL, SELMA B. Poems, songs, and prose thoughts.

Morceaux choisis, prose et poesie.

Exquisite songs, musical comedies of a sentimental tinge, humorous and satiric skits in dramatic form, prose tragedy of passionate error, and poetic tragedy of titanic revoltall these and more welled up from a sub-conscious spring of feeling, taking little counsel of the sober intellect.

Beowulf, prose translations by Tinker, Hall, Earle, Morris and Wyatt; metrical versions by Garnett, J.L. Hall, Lumsden, etc.

In some measure because I have turned into rhythmless prose a line of verse which, as mere sound, has unusual beauty.

Saintsbury writes: "Milton's influence is omnipresent in almost all later English poetry, and in not a little of later prose English literature.

What I am daily hoping to see is the rise of a man of genius, with a rich poetical vocabulary and a deep instinct for poetical material, who will throw aside resolutely all the canons of verse, and construct prose lyrics with a perfect mastery of cadence and melody.

cet été une comédie en prose du sieur Marivaux, sous le titre les Serments indiscrets.

His poetry was verbose fustian, and his prose a maze of far-fetched expressions and perplexed phrases.

I have heard it remarked by a man of much literary discrimination that Emerson's poetic gift was pre-eminent and that he should have made verse and not prose his principal medium for expression.

invented[A] that kind of writing which we call blank verse, but the French, more properly, prose mesuré; into which the English tongue so naturally slides, that, in writing prose, it is hardly to be avoided.