IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...

It is believed, traditionally, that to qualify as poetry any writing must have three traits it is versified, it has something creative and worthwhile to say and it is intentional. The first condition ...

“Politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose”. This is how Mario Cuomo, the former Governor of New York, described the varying strengths politicians need when seeking office, and while ...

The prose poem as we know it is French in origin: it was established by Aloysius Bertrand with Gaspard de la Nuit in 1842, and subsequently picked up by Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Mallarmé, who saw it as ...

There is no novel as deep and dark as a Russian novel, no poetry more searingly confessional than Russian poetry, no drama more obsessed with plumbing the depths of the soul than Russian drama.

まもなく出版になる彼の小説は、散文に彼の詩の才能を融合させたものだ。 英会話が出きるようになっても「prose」や「poetry」を使うことがあるんだろうか？ 「combines prose with his gift for poetry」を散文と彼の詩の才能をコンバインさせた。とどうしても ...

My mobile phone, resolutely rectangular and sized to my palm, decided the form of my seventh book. The first line came on the fringes of vague intention. It was evening, I was weary of my laptop, ...

Of Joan Didion’s clipped style in A Book of Common Prayer, Martin Amis once remarked: “The most poetic thing about Miss Didion’s prose in this novel is that it doesn’t go all the way across the page.” ...

A fine prose style, if we are veteran readers, and equal to it, affords one of the most delicious experiences in the whole world of art. It is so subtle and fastidious that it must be considered very ...