As the prose books of the Bible were hardly ever written in stichs, the copyists, in order to estimate the amount of work, had to count the letters.

Poems and Fancies also includes The Animal Parliament, a prose piece consisting largely of speeches and letters.

His letters, though empty and affected in matter, show a real mastery of style, introducing a new clearness and precision into French prose and encouraging the development of the language on national lines by emphasizing its most idiomatic elements.

Cassady impressed the group with the free-flowing style of his letters, and Kerouac cited them as a key influence on his spontaneous prose style.

Only in 1913 did Norbert von Hellingrath, a member of the circle around poet Stefan George, bring out the first two volumes of what eventually became a six-volume edition of Hölderlin's poems, prose and letters ( the ' Berlin Edition ', Berliner Ausgabe ).

He published nothing in book form, but his verses and his prose letters were the delight of the coteries, and were copied, handed about and admired more perhaps than the work of any contemporary.

The three chief divisions of his prose work are his Recherches, his letters and his professional speeches.

At her death, Barbauld was lauded in the Newcastle Magazine as " unquestionably the first best of our female poets, and one of the most eloquent and powerful of our prose writers " and the Imperial Magazine declared " so long as letters shall be cultivated in Britain, or wherever the English language shall be known, so long will the name of this lady be respected.

The letters of Pliny the Younger likewise are studied as both examples of Latin prose with self-conscious literary qualities and sources for historical information.

The narrative is stuffed with prose letters and lyric poems that the narrator claims were in truth exchanged by the unhappy lovers and put in the book at the behest of his lady.

In the opinion of Sainte-Beuve the prose of her letters ranks with that of Voltaire as the best of that classical epoch without excepting any even of the great writers.

Shaykh heard the voice of Kaaba loud and clear ; later in a meditation God taught him the lesson and to express this gratitude Ibn ‘ Arabī composed a collection of letters in rhymed prose, entitled the Tāj al-Rasā ’ il, in homage to the Kaaba.

The written word is used as a literary art form, as well as for personal letters and notes sent with artwork and recordings of the spoken word, both of poetry and prose, are also a part of the network.

The ethical life view is written as two long letters, with a more argumentative and restrained prose, discussing moral responsibility, critical reflection, and marriage.

The prose version has as one of its riddles: " Who invented letters?

In 1993 Ghost Works was published, which contains prose poems, letters, diary entries, short-line poems, and travel books to make a narrative.

Of Jacob's prose works, which are not nearly so numerous, the most interesting are his letters, which throw light upon some of the events of his time and reveal his attachment to the Monophysite doctrine which was then struggling for supremacy in the Syrian churches, and particularly at Edessa, over the opposite teaching of Nestorius.

Similarly, as the student advanced into the Ars Dictaminis stage more theory and practice writing formal or prose letters were focused on.

Form criticism breaks the Bible down into sections ( pericopes, stories ) which are analyzed and categorized by genres ( prose or verse, letters, laws, court archives, war hymns, poems of lament, etc .).

The prose of the century is mainly dedicated to scientific subjects, but the letters of Antonio da Costa, Antonio Ribeiro Sanches, and Alexandre de Gusmão have literary value and those of the celebrated Carvalheiro d ' Oliveira, if not so correct, are even more informing.

Najara's letters, secular poems, epigrams, and rimed prose form the work entitled Meme Yisrael ( published at the end of the second edition of the Zemirot Yisrael ).

In ancient times, it was a custom to exchange waka instead of letters in prose.

Some even go so far as to embrace certain Victorian habits such as shaving with straight razors, riding penny farthings, exchanging calling cards, and using fountain pens to write letters in florid prose sealed by wax.

Lobkovic was an author of philosophical prose, letters, and verses, amongst them a satire on Bohemian national life Ad sanctum Venceslaum satira ( 1489 ).

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

And their chroniclers are not the dramatic poets but the prose novelists.

Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.

The prose introduction to Lokasenna and Snorri's list of kennings state that Ægir is also known as Gymir, who is Gerðr's father, but this is evidently an erroneous interpretation of kennings in which different giant-names are used interchangeably.

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

There are in round numbers three hundred and sixty uncompounded verbs in Beowulf, and forty of them are poetical words in the sense that they are unrecorded or rare in the existing prose writings.

Proto-Isaiah is divided between verse and prose passages: a currently popular theory is that the verse passages represent the prophecies of the original Isaiah, while the prose sections are " sermons " on his texts composed at the court of Josiah, at the end of the 7th century BCE.

Job 1 and 2 are the prologue, written in prose.

While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in Castilian, the Cantigas are in Galician-Portuguese, and reflect the popularity in the Castilian court of other poetic corpuses such as the cantigas d ' amigo and cantigas d ' amor.

The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

While some of the prose in the new revelations seems designed to guide the denomination on matters of church governance and doctrine, others are seen as inspirational.

A fable is a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature which are anthropomorphized ( given human qualities such as verbal communication ), and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson ( a " moral "), which may at the end be added explicitly in a pithy maxim.

These stories are written mainly in prose.

In the above examples, fákr and marr are distinctively poetic lexemes ; the normal word for “ horse ” in Old Norse prose is hestr.

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

To persons who are in the habit of poetical composition, a similar phenomenon would not be a stranger occurrence, than the spirited dialogues in prose which take place in dreams of persons of duller invention than our poet, and which not unfrequently leave behind a very vivid impression.

Beyla ( referred to in the prose introduction to the poem as a servant of Freyr ) says that all of the mountains are shaking, that she thinks Thor must be on his way home, and when Thor arrives he will bring peace to those that quarrel there.

There are also a number of extant prose works, such as sermons and saints ' lives, biblical translations, and translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers, legal documents, such as laws and wills, and practical works on grammar, medicine, and geography.

Aesop's Fables, repeatedly rendered in both verse and prose since first being recorded about 500 B. C., are perhaps the richest single source of allegorical poetry through the ages.

Among English-language readers, his best-known work is the Duino Elegies ; his two most famous prose works are the Letters to a Young Poet and the semi-autobiographical Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

Classic examples of his realistic prose are " The Bet " ( 1889 ), " Ward No. 6 " ( 1892 ), and " The Lady with the Dog " ( 1899 ).