His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.

On the basis of this careful reading, Thompson frequently gave a clear, complete, and interesting description of a prose work or chose effective quotations to illustrate his discussions of poetry.

* Argument ( literature ), a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work

In this work, Alan uses prose and verse to illustrate the way in which nature defines its own position as inferior to that of God.

In fact, he writes in the prelude that he first created a prose work and then used it as the basis for his poem Metres of Boethius, his crowning literary achievement.

One of Thomas ' most popular works was the short essay A Child's Christmas in Wales, which after being released as part of a recording, in which Thomas read his own work, became his most popular prose work in America.

Caledfwlch appears in several early Welsh works, including the poem Preiddeu Annwfn and the prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, a work associated with the Mabinogion and written perhaps around 1100.

The third category of Ephrem's writings is his prose work.

The work starts out with a lengthy prose section describing the circumstances leading up to Grímnir's monologue, which comprises 54 stanzas of poetic verse.

Although dissatisfied with his return to Florence, Boccaccio continued to work, producing Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine ( also known as Ameto ) a mix of prose and poems, in 1341, completing the fifty canto allegorical poem Amorosa visione in 1342, and Fiammetta in 1343.

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions ( specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions ) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

His work is the earliest Greek prose to have survived intact.

His first prose work, Waverley in 1814, is often called the first historical novel.

Along with her work as a writer of prose fiction, Russ was also a playwright, essayist, and author of nonfiction works, generally literary criticism and feminist theory, including the essay collection Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts ; How to Suppress Women's Writing ; and the book-length study of modern feminism, What Are We Fighting For ?.

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.

The Didot Perceval, a prose continuation of Robert's work, takes up the story, and the knight Percival sits in the seat and initiates the Grail quest.

A short story is a work of fiction, usually written in narrative prose.

Lazarsfeld, however, had trouble both with the prose style of the work Adorno handed in and what Lazarsfeld thought was Adorno's " lack of discipline in ... presentation ".

The Book of the City of Ladies ( 1405 ), or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, is perhaps Christine de Pizan's most famous literary work, and it is her second work of lengthy prose.

In the Latin work of prose, the Satyricon, written about 60 C. E.

Then, between 27 and 30 August 1865, he took up Parsifal again and made a prose draft of the work ; this contains a fairly brief outline of the plot and a considerable amount of detailed commentary on the characters and themes of the drama.

By 23 February 1877 he had completed a second and more extensive prose draft of the work, and by 19 April of the same year he had transformed this into a verse libretto ( or “ poem ”, as Wagner liked to call his libretti ).

Numerous modernist poets have written in non-traditional forms or in what traditionally would have been considered prose, although their writing was generally infused with poetic diction and often with rhythm and tone established by non-metrical means.

Characterised by scholar Simone Oettli as a writer who simultaneously sought fame and anonymity, Frame eschewed the dominant New Zealand literary realism of the post-war era, combining prose, poetry, and modernist elements with a magical realist style, garnering numerous local literary prizes despite mixed critical and public reception.

In these novels Arenas ’ style ranges from a stark realist narrative and high modernist experimental prose to absurd, satiric humor.

In the 1910s, Vinea dedicated him the poem " Tuzla ", which is one of his first contributions to modernist literature ; a decade later, one of the Janco exhibits inspired him to write the prose poem Danţul pe frânghie (" Dancing on a Wire ").

The third generation was centered on " Young Israel ", a modernist group of poets and prose writers, most of whom are kibbutz members, whose work has been influenced by the avant-garde schools of English and French writing.

To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow.

His prose works combined traditional and modernist ( expressionist, surrealist, dadaist ) forms of expression.

The stories reflected an urban ennui and disillusion felt by those leading lives fueled by intense emotions and hedonistic self-indulgence. Georges Lemaître wrote in 1938: “ Beyond any doubt Morand is the most typical representative and interpreter of French literature today … His defects and merits, are they not the defects and merits of the world today …” Supporters and enthusiasts of Morand, Cocteau and André Breton appreciated his “ spiteful humour and surreal urban poetry, and aphoristic prose .” French critics praised his descriptive facility with words, leading them to categorize him as a “ modernist ,” and “ imagist .”

His masterwork is a modernist novel Isušena kaljuža ( 1906 – 1909 ) saturated with psychosexual and spiritual conflicts of the iconoclastic first-person narrator and later described as a proto-existentialist prose, written decades before the literary movement's appearance.

A skilled writer and orator, Coluccio drew heavily upon the classical tradition and developed a powerful prose style based on the Latin of Virgil and Cicero: " I have always believed ," Salutati wrote " I must imitate antiquity not simply to reproduce it, but in order to produce something new " In this sense his own view of humanism was broader-based than the antiquarianism of the generation of humanists he fostered.

V. S. Pritchett called Green " the most gifted prose writer of his generation ".

As he describes in his book, Kashner was a disgruntled Long Island teenager in the 1970s who was obsessed with the poetry and prose of the Beat generation of the 1950s.

Preceding this generation of individuals was the prose master Gui Youguang ( 1507 – 1571 ) who opposed the classicists headed by Wang Shizhen ( 1526 – 1590 ).

' His Nemesis, a prose tragedy in four acts about Beatrice Cenci, partly inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's The Cenci, was printed while he was dying.

The rest of fr. 350 was paraphrased in prose by the historian / geographer Strabo.

However, virtually all major works of Greek and Latin prose possessed such clausulae ; and some scholars have rejected the identification of Libanius ' Marcellinus with Ammianus, since Marcellinus was a very common name and the tone suggests Libanius was addressing a man much younger than himself ( Ammianus was his contemporary ).

A Life of Saint Ælfheah in prose and verse was written by a Canterbury monk named Osbern, at Lanfranc's request.

Many artists, including Martin Schongauer, Hieronymus Bosch, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, and Salvador Dalí, have depicted these incidents from the life of Anthony ; in prose, the tale was retold and embellished by Gustave Flaubert in The Temptation of Saint Anthony.

Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own.

He wrote the Bāburnāma in Chaghatai Turkic, his mother-tongue, though his prose was highly Persianized in its sentence structure, morphology, and vocabulary.

Valiente was unhappy with this version, saying that " people seemed to have some difficulty with this, because of the various goddess-names which they found hard to pronounce ", and so she rewrote it as a prose version, much of which differs from her initial version, and is more akin to Gardner's version.

He felt the connection between his screenwriting style and Burroughs ' prose style was so strong, that he jokingly remarked that should Burroughs pass on, " I'll just write his next book.

Two of Macdonald's strengths were his use of psychology and his beautiful prose, which was full of imagery.

Thomas was an accomplished writer of prose poetry, with collections such as Potrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ( 1940 ) and Quite Early One Morning ( 1954 ) showing he was capable of writing moving short stories.

After some ten years of development, which Zamenhof spent translating literature into Esperanto as well as writing original prose and verse, the first book of Esperanto grammar was published in Warsaw in July 1887.

However, literary conventions that we take for granted today had not yet been inventedthere was no spacing between words, no consistency in punctuation nor in vowel elisions, no marks for breathings and accent ( guides to pronunciation and hence word recognition ), no convention to denote change of speaker and no stage directions, and verse was written straight across the page like prose.

During his career he wrote poetry, prose, and stage plays ; his last novel was Kenelm Chillingly, which was in course of publication in Blackwood ’ s Magazine at the time of his death in 1873.

He made a few mistakes ; he may well have made others that we cannot detect because he is our sole authority ; when he tried to describe buildings his command of language was usually inadequate ; he is often confused and obscure, though this may be as much his printer's fault as his own ; his prose is frequently difficult to read and painful to translate ; but he seems to us to be free from the dishonesty of the traveller who tries to exaggerate his own knowledge, importance, or courage.

In ancient Greek and Roman education, the fable was the first of the progymnasmata -- training exercises in prose composition and public speaking — wherein students would be asked to learn fables, expand upon them, invent their own, and finally use them as persuasive examples in longer forensic or deliberative speeches.