You have written some other poetry, have you not?' 'Yes, sire.

France, on the contrary, was now reduced from its palmy state of almost European sovereignty to one of the deepest misery; and its monarch, in his old age, found little left of his former power but those records of poetry, painting, sculpture, and architecture which tell posterity of his magnificence, and the splendor of which throw his faults and his misfortunes into the shade.

Root's The Poetry of Chaucer.

What difference do you note between the form of Robert Manning of Brunne's Handling Synne and Anglo-Saxon poetry?

Root's The Poetry of Chaucer, 292 pp., is a good reference work in connection with the actual study of the poetry.

Few English prose works have had more influence on the poetry of the Victorian age.

The best poetry of the fifteenth century was written in the Northern dialect, which was spoken north of the river Humber.

" Much of this Scotch poetry is remarkable for showing in that early age a genuine love of nature.

" Outside the pages of Shakespeare, we shall for the next two hundred years look in vain for so genuine a love of scenery and natural phenomena as we find in fifteenth-century Scottish poetry.

Although the higher types of poetry were for the most part wanting during the fifteenth century, yet the ballads multiplied and sang their songs to the ear of life.

English poetry is so great because it has not withdrawn from life, because it was nurtured in such a cradle.

(1509-1547), the influence of Italian poetry made itself distinctly felt.

The roots of Elizabethan poetry were watered by many fountains, one of the chief of which flowed from Italian soil.

To Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) and to the Earl of Surrey (1517-1547) belongs the credit of introducing from Italian sources new influences, which helped to remodel English poetry and give it a distinctly modern cast.

They introduced the poetry of the amorists, that is, verse which tells of the woes and joys of a lover.

In 1557, the year before Elizabeth's accession, the poems of Wyatt and Surrey appeared in Tottel's Miscellany, one of the earliest printed collections of modern English poetry.

The age is noted for its ballads, which aided in developing among high and low a liking for poetry.

Veitch's The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry.

Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.

Collins's Greek Influence on English Poetry.

Selections from fifteenth-century Scottish poetry may be found in Bronson, I, 170-197; Ward, I, passim; P. & S., 246-277; Oxford, 16-33.

Shakespeare read Holinshed, North, Greene, Sidney, and Lodge and turned some of their suggestions into poetry, which we very much prefer to their prose.

It was the misfortune of Elizabethan prose to be almost completely overshadowed by the poetry.

For the same reason Goethe's naïve poetry is incomparably greater than Schiller's rhetoric.

The work of art or poetry or philosophy produced by the genius is simply the result, or quintessence, of this contemplative attitude, elaborated according to certain technical rules.

A prints this speech as prose.

ll. 22 and 23. Prose.

The rest of the speech in prose.

Two lines ending prose, Madame.

Prose (probably).

l. 40 and p. 106, ll. 1 and 2. Prose.

ll. 20 and 21. Prose.

Dear PayneA friend and fellow-clerk of mine, Mr. White (a good fellow) coming to your parts, I would fain have accompanied him, but am forced instead to send a part of me, verse and prose, most of it from 20 to 30 years old, such as I then was, and I am not much altered.

I have felt all through as if the story would have lent itself best to metrical rather than to prose fiction, especially in all that relates to the psychology of Silas; except that, under that treatment, there could not be an equal play of humour."

Gracian, in Spain, became especially popular as a foremost representative of his time in transferring the humour for conceitscultismo, as it was calledfrom verse to prose.

He began in 1630 with a prose tract, the Hero, laboured in short ingenious sentences, which went through six editions.

The realities lay about him now: the books jamming his old college bookcases and overflowing on chairs and tables; sketches toohe could do charming things, if only he had known how to finish them!and, on the writing-table at his elbow, scattered sheets of prose and verse; charming things also, but, like the sketches, unfinished.

What he most wanted, now that the first flutter of being was over, was to learn and to doto know what the great people had thought, think about their thinking, and then launch his own boat: write some good verse if possible; if not, then critical prose.

A dramatic poem lay among the stuff at his elbow; but the prose critic was at his elbow too, and not to be satisfied about the poem; and poet and critic passed the nights in hot if unproductive debate.

According to the Prose Edda, "Iduna keeps in a box the apples which the gods, when they feel old age approaching, have only to taste of to become young again.

"Prose and verse shall woo her for my lady-love; and she shall blush and hang her head in modest joy, even as the rose when listening to the music of her beloved bulbul beneath the stars of night.

The main body of imaginative prose literaturethe novelis treated of in the next chapter and here no attempt will be made to deal with any but the admittedly greatest names.

In the case of one nineteenth century writer in prose, this method of exclusion cannot apply.

Inside the body of his work the student of nineteenth century literature is probably in need of some guidance; outside so far as prose is concerned he can fend for himself.

His message is at once larger and simpler, for though his form was prose, his soul was a poet's soul, and what he has to say is a poet's word.

There were mediaeval romances in prose and verse; Renaissance pastoral tales, and stories of adventure; collections, plenty of them, of short stories like Boccaccio's, and those in Painter's Palace of Pleasure.

His later work in poetry and prose, devoted to the reconstruction of English history, is remarkable for the justness and saneness of its temper.

JEFFERSON, BERNARD L. Creative prose writing, by Bernard L. Jefferson and Harry Houston Peckham.

© 30Jun26, A897607. R118303, 5Oct53, Irma W. Jefferson (W) & Harry Houston Peckham (A) JEFFERSON, IRMA W. Creative prose writing.

NUMBER FIVE JOY STREET; a medley of prose and verse for boys and girls, by Walter de la Mare and others.